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Grevillea nana
Dwarf grevillea is a low, mounded or prostrate shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown for its clusters of pink, orange, yellow or red flowers. The key to growing it is full sun, excellent drainage and very little water once established.
Grevillea nana, commonly known as dwarf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low, mounded, dense shrub with divided leaves with sharply-pointed, linear lobes, and clusters of pink, orange, yellow or red flowers.
Subspecies abbreviata grows on shallow soil around granite outcrops in shrubland in the area around Wubin and about 30 km (19 mi) to the east, in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion. Subspecies nana grows in open heath and shrubland from near Bullfinch to Mount Gibson and Manmanning in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia..
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea nana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
