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Hibbertia scabrifolia

Hibbertia scabrifolia is a low, many-branched shrub up to about 60 cm tall with small linear leaves and single yellow flowers, native to the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a wild species of eucalypt woodland, rarely grown in gardens, so care needs are drawn from general knowledge of Hibbertia.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry seasons but needs moisture while getting started.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient ground.
Temperature
Suited to warm, seasonally dry tropical conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Hibbertia scabrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a shrub with low-lying branches, linear leaves and yellow flowers usually arranged singly near the ends of branches, usually with 20 to 22 stamens arranged in bundles around two densely scaly carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia grows eucalypt woodland in the Northern Kimberley region of northern 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 scabrifolia 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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