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Hakea ceratophylla

Hakea ceratophylla
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hakea ceratophylla, commonly known as the horned leaf hakea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a stiff shrub with variably-shaped leaves that are sometimes lobed and flowers with white or rusty-coloured hairs.

Where it grows

The shrub is found in southern areas of Western Australia in the Peel, South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it grows on seasonally damp flats and among granite outcrops in sandy, loamy or gravelly soils. The plants range is from near Perth in the north and south to around Albany and inland to around the Stirling Range area where it grows in heath or Melaleuca woodland communities.

Other Hakea plants

Mulloway Needle Bush · Column Hakea · Hakea acuminata · Hakea adnata · Enigma Hakea · Hakea ambigua · Prickly Hakea · Hakea anadenia · Yellow Hakea · Big Nellie Hakea · Hakea asperma · Hakea auriculata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hakea ceratophylla 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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