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Hibbertia villosa

Hibbertia villosa
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hibbertia villosa is an erect, hairy shrub up to about 50 cm tall with yellow flowers, native to northern New South Wales in open forest. It is a small hibbertia best grown in well-drained, lightly fertile soil in a sunny, open spot.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry spells once established.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty, acidic to neutral soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. & CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia villosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches and leaves, spatula-shaped to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers with fifteen to twenty stamens in three groups arranged around three carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia grows in open forest from the Gibraltar Range National Park to Werrikimbe National Park in northern New South Wales.

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 villosa 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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