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Isopogon crithmifolius

Isopogon crithmifolius
Photo: G. Flowers, CC BY 3.0 au

Isopogon crithmifolius is a shrub from south-west Western Australia with divided leaves and reddish pink, rounded flower heads in spring. It grows in forest and woodland, so give it well-drained, acidic soil and full sun to part shade.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; Western Australian natives dislike wet feet.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic, sandy or gravelly soil low in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia

About

Isopogon crithmifolius is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with divided leaves and more or less spherical heads of glabrous reddish pink flowers.

Where it grows

This isopogon grows in forest and woodland from near Perth to near Cranbrook in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Isopogon plants

Spider Coneflower · Elkhorn Coneflower · Broad Leaf Drumsticks · Narrow-leaf Drumsticks · Isopogon asper · Isopogon attenuatus · Isopogon axillaris · Stirling Range Coneflower · Isopogon buxifolius · Horny Cone Bush · Isopogon cuneatus · Nepean Conebush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isopogon crithmifolius 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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