Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Wheel Grevillea

Grevillea sarissa

Wheel Grevillea
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Wheel Grevillea is a spreading, arid-zone shrub from inland Western and South Australia, grown for its wheel-shaped clusters of red or yellow flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and little water once established.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient ground.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and frosts typical of inland Australia; protect from prolonged frost and waterlogging.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Grevillea sarissa, commonly known as wheel grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is native to South Australia and Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub, usually with linear leaves, and more or less erect, wheel-like to more or less spherical clusters of red or yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Subspecies anfractifolia grows in mallee woodland or shrubland, often near salt lakes, and is found between Norseman, Balladonia Coolgardie and Queen Victoria Spring in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison and Nullarbor bioregions of inland Western Australia.

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 sarissa 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…