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Guichenotia sarotes

Guichenotia sarotes
Photo: Fred Humphreys, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Guichenotia sarotes is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spindly, low-growing shrub with densely hairy new growth, hairy, greyish, linear leaves and pink to purple flowers arranged in loose groups of two to six.

Where it grows

This guichenotia is an undershrub that grows in a variety of soils, including sand, clay, gravel, on sloping sand plains, low hills, ridges and near salt lakes. It is found between the Hutt River, Lake King and Newdegate on the eastern side of the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Guichenotia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guichenotia sarotes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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