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Hibbertia propinqua

Hibbertia propinqua is a small erect to spreading shrub, up to about 50 cm tall, with yellow flowers, endemic to a restricted area of sandplain in western Western Australia. It is a wild native of woodland and kwongan, and is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is general for the genus.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry, sandy soils.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; poor, acidic, low-nutrient soil suits it.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates warm, dry summers and light frosts, protect from severe frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Hibbertia propinqua is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with linear to narrow oblong leaves and yellow flowers arranged amongst clusters of leaves, the flowers with eight to ten stamens all on one side of the two carpels.

Where it grows

This species grows in woodland and kwongan between Eneabba and the Coomallo Nature Reserve in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region in the west of Western 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 propinqua 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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