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Spreading Coneflower

Isopogon divergens

Spreading Coneflower
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Spreading coneflower is a shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its rounded pink flower heads in spring. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and a dry-summer climate similar to its native heath.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid wet feet and keep the soil from staying soggy.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty, low-fertility soil; avoid rich or heavily fertilised mixes.
Temperature
Mild to warm temperate conditions; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia

About

Isopogon divergens, commonly known as spreading coneflower, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves and more or less spherical heads of glabrous pink flowers followed by an oval to cylindrical fruiting cone.

Where it grows

Spreading coneflower grows in shrubland and heath and is widely distributed between the Murchison River and Lake Grace in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee 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 crithmifolius · Isopogon cuneatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isopogon divergens 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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