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Woolly Dragon

Hemiphora bartlingii

Woolly Dragon
Photo: Leif Stridvall via Anita Stridvall, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hemiphora bartlingii, commonly known as woolly dragon, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with branches covered with greyish, rusty-coloured hairs, leaves with a blistered appearance and with white, pink or purple flowers over an extended period.

Where it grows

Woolly dragon mostly occurs to the north of Perth but is found between Busselton and the Murchison River, sometimes as far east as Yellowdine. It grows in sandy kwongan and woodland in the Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions.

Other Hemiphora plants

Red Velvet · Hemiphora exserta · Hemiphora lanata · Hemiphora uncinata · Woolly Dragons

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hemiphora bartlingii 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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