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Hibbertia vaginata is a small, erect, spreading shrub, 20 to 75 cm tall, native to south-west Western Australia, where it grows in sandy or gravelly soils. It is a hibbertia, a genus of mostly Australian shrubs, and it is not widely grown in gardens, so most care advice here is general to the genus.
Hibbertia vaginata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 20–75 cm (7.9–29.5 in).
It was first formally described in 1863 by George Bentham who gave it the name Candollea vaginata in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond. In 1880, Ferdinand von Mueller changed the name to Hibbertia vaginata in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (vaginata) means "sheathed", referring to the leaf base.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia vaginata 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.
