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Hibbertia hibbertioides

Hibbertia hibbertioides
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Hibbertia hibbertioides is a small, prostrate or sprawling shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown for its bright yellow flowers. It needs well-drained, sandy soil and full sun to thrive.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, ideally acidic to neutral.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia hibbertioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a small, prostrate or sprawling shrub with crowded, linear cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers with usually eleven stamens arranged in groups around three carpels.

Where it grows

The variety hibbertioides is widespread in the far south-west of Western Australia where it grows in woodland and heath from Mount Lesueur to Dwellingup and inland to near Pingelly. Variety meridionalis grows in mallee and heath from near Hopetoun to near Esperance and var. pedunculata in woodland from near York to near Arthur River.

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 hibbertioides 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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