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Hibbertia pungens is a prickly, erect or sprawling native shrub from Western Australia, growing 0.2 to 2 m tall with yellow flowers from June to November. It is a hardy, sun-loving plant for dry, well-drained sites, not a common houseplant.
Hibbertia pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prickly, erect or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2.0 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in) and produces uniformly yellow flowers between June and November. It was first formally described in 1863 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (pungens) means "ending in a sharp point".
This species is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Hampton, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia where it grows on rocky hillsides, plains and river banks.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia pungens 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.
