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Sparse Flowered Grevillea

Grevillea sparsiflora

Sparse Flowered Grevillea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Sparse flowered grevillea is a low, spreading Australian shrub from southern Western Australia, valued for its pinkish-red flowers. It needs full sun and well-drained, sandy soil, and it dislikes wet roots.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
Mild to warm conditions; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea sparsiflora, commonly known as sparse flowered grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with crowded, linear leaves and pinkish-red flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to five.

Where it grows

Sparse flowered grevillea is found between Mount Ragged, to the east of Esperance and Twilight Cove in the Coolgardie, Hampton and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia. It grows on sand dunes, limestone cliffs and in eucalypt woodland in sandy and loamy soils.

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 sparsiflora 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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