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Isopogon inconspicuus

Isopogon inconspicuus
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Isopogon inconspicuus is a small shrub in the Protea family, native to the sandplains of southwestern Western Australia, growing 20 to 80 cm tall with pink to purple flower heads from August to November. It needs well-drained sandy soil and good light.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy, acidic mix; phosphorus-sensitive.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
WSW. Western Australia

About

Isopogon inconspicuus is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with pinnate leaves with cylindrical leaflets, and pink to purple flowers covered with grey hairs.

Where it grows

Isopogon inconspicuus grows in heath and shrubland on sandplains between Dandaragan and Eneabba.

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 inconspicuus 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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