A spreading to prostrate Australian shrub grown for its narrow leaves and pink to red flowers, best in well-drained, drought-tolerant gardens. It is a species, not a genus, and is native to southern Australia.
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil; dislikes waterlogging and phosphorus-rich soils.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range; frost-hardy in mild climates but protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. South Australia to Victoria
Climate
subtropical
About
Grevillea lavandulacea, commonly known as lavender grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a prostrate to spreading shrub with linear to elliptic leaves and clusters of pink to red flowers.
How to grow it
Grevillea lavandulacea is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use in well draining and drought tolerant gardens. A number of naturally occurring forms have been introduced into cultivation from localities including Adelaide Hills, Black Range, Flinders Ranges, Little Desert, Mount Compass, Penola, Victor Harbor and Woakwine. The commonly grown cultivar G. lavendulacea 'Tanunda' is thought to have originated from Aldinga in South Australia, rather than Tanunda in the Barossa Valley where a different form occurs.
Where it grows
Subspecies lavendulacea grows in a range of habitats from heathland to open woodland and dense shrubland and is found in the south-east of South Australia, including the Flinders Range, and west of the Grampians in western Victoria. Subspecies rogersii grows in shrubland, forest and woodland and is restricted to Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.