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Isopogon petiolaris

Isopogon petiolaris
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Isopogon petiolaris is a low, spreading native shrub from eastern Australia, under 1 m tall, with yellow flower heads from July to November. It needs well-drained, often stony or sandy soil and full sun to part shade.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during establishment, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or stony soil; acidic to neutral, as for native Proteaceae.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate to subtropical climates; tolerates cool winters and brief frosts.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales

About

Isopogon petiolaris is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with sharply-pointed, divided leaves and more or less spherical heads of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Isopogon petiolaris mostly grows in stony places in forest and heath from the Darling Downs in south-eastern Queensland and south through the Northern Tablelands to near Parramatta and west to the Pilliga forest and Parkes.

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 petiolaris 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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