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Hairy Guinea Flower

Hibbertia hirsuta

Hairy Guinea Flower is a small, slender, prostrate shrub from southern Australia, growing up to about 15 cm with tiny yellow flowers. It is a low-growing native for rockeries and small native gardens and needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional watering; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Hardy to around -5 °C; protect from prolonged frost and extreme heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. South Australia, Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Hibbertia hirsuta is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae, and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a small, slender, prostrate shrub with sparsely hairy foliage, narrow elliptic leaves and small yellow flowers with a single petal, usually only a single stamen and two carpels.

Where it grows

Hibbertia hirsuta grows in grassland, woodland and heath, in northern Tasmania and south-eastern South Australia.

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 hirsuta 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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