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Guichenotia glandulosa

Guichenotia glandulosa is a dwarf, spreading shrub from south-western Western Australia, with pink flowers in clusters of six or seven in August and September. It is a native of seasonally wet sedgeland and creeklines, so give it sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, tolerant of poor soils.
Temperature
Suited to mild, subtropical to Mediterranean conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Guichenotia glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, dwarf shrub with hairy new growth, more or less linear leaves with the edges turned down, and pink flowers arranged in groups of six or seven.

Where it grows

This species of guichenotia grows in sedgeland and along creeklines near Wongan Hills in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Guichenotia plants

Guichenotia alba · Guichenotia angustifolia · Guichenotia anota · Guichenotia apetala · Guichenotia asteriskos · Guichenotia astropletha · Guichenotia basiviridis · Guichenotia impudica · Guichenotia intermedia · Guichenotia ledifolia · Aussie Bells · Small Flowered Guichenotia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guichenotia glandulosa 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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