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Small Flower Grevillea

Grevillea parviflora

Small Flower Grevillea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

A low, dense, spreading to erect shrub native to the Sydney region of New South Wales, with fine linear leaves and small white flowers that often have red styles. It suits a sunny, well-drained spot in a native or dry garden.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil, acidic to neutral; poor soils are fine.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; frost tolerance varies, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea parviflora, commonly known as small-flower grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Sydney region of eastern New South Wales. It is a low, dense, spreading to erect shrub with more or less linear leaves and white flowers with a red style that sometimes turns red as it ages.

Where it grows

This grevillea grows heath or shrubby or heathy woodland in the Sydney region. Subspecies parviflora is mostly found west and south of Sydney between Camden, Appin and Cordeaux Dam with disjunct populations near Putty, Cessnock and Cooranbong. Subspecies supplicans occurs north-west of Sydney near Arcadia, Maroota and Marramarra National Park.

Other Grevillea plants

Grevillea acacioides · Grevillea acanthifolia · Grevillea acerata · Grevillea acrobotrya · Grevillea acropogon · Grevillea acuaria · Grevillea adenotricha · Grevillea agrifolia · Grevillea albiflora · Catclaws Grevillea · Grevillea alpivaga · Grevillea althoferorum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea parviflora 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.

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