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Hemiandra gardneri, red snakebush, is a low prostrate, trailing shrub from Western Australia with greyish foliage and red to dark pink flowers in spring. It needs excellent drainage and full sun, and it is best suited to dry, sandy conditions.
Hemiandra gardneri, commonly known as red snakebush, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prostrate, trailing plant with greyish foliage and mostly red flowers.
Red snakebush grows on deep sand in heath, scrub and hills north of Watheroo.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hemiandra gardneri 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.
