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Hibbertia hermanniifolia

Hibbertia hermanniifolia
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hibbertia hermanniifolia is an erect shrub native to eastern Australia, growing to about 1 to 1.5 m with yellow flowers from November to March. It is a native bushland plant, grown in gardens mainly as a sun-loving, drought-tolerant shrub.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let it rely mostly on rainfall and water sparingly in dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or sandstone-derived soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cool to mild climates; frost tolerant at moderate levels, protect from severe frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. New South Wales to E. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia hermanniifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with spatula-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, with ten to fifteen stamens arranged around two hairy carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia grows in forest on sandstone near Bents Basin, in the Yarrowitch area and south from the Wadbilliga National Park in New South Wales and on the rocky summits of mountains in north-eastern Victoria. Subspecies recondita only occurs in north-eastern Victoria.

Other Hibbertia plants

Bandalup Buttercup · Hibbertia acaulothrix · Needle Leaved Guinea Flower · Prickly Guinea Flower · Hibbertia acrotrichion · Pointed Hibbertia · Hibbertia alopecota · Hibbertia ambita · Hibbertia amplexicaulis · Hibbertia ancistrophylla · Hibbertia ancistrotricha · Hibbertia andrewsiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia hermanniifolia 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.

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