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Hebenstretia glaucescens is a small annual from the arid Western Cape of South Africa, growing 3 to 15 cm tall on open flats. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on its dry, sunny native habitat.
Hebenstretia glaucescens is a species of plant from South Africa. It belongs to the family Scrophulariaceae.
This species is endemic to the Western Cape of South Africa. It is found at elevations of 140–1,370 m (460–4,490 ft)140 – 1370m. It grows on open flats between southern Knersvlakte, southern Bushmanland, Calvinia and Tanqua Karoo.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hebenstretia glaucescens 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.
