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Hibbertia quadricolor is a low, sprawling to ascending shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 10–50 cm tall with yellow flowers from July to October. It is a native of the Jarrah Forest and needs good drainage and full sun to thrive.
Hibbertia quadricolor is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling to ascending shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in) and produces yellow flowers between July and October.
This species was first formally described in 1923 by Karel Domin in the journal Vestnik Kralovske Ceske Spolecnosti Nauk, Trida Matematiko-Prirodevedecke from specimens collected by Arthur Dorrien-Smith. The specific epithet (quadricolor) means "four-coloured", and refers to each of the leaves, bracts, sepals and young leaves being a different colour.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia quadricolor 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.
