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Clustered Coneflower

Isopogon polycephalus

Clustered Coneflower
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Clustered coneflower is a spreading Western Australian shrub of about 1 m, grown for its rounded clusters of white, cream or yellow flower heads. It needs sharply drained sandy soil and full sun.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then keep fairly dry; it dislikes wet feet.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy-loam, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost once established.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Isopogon polycephalus, commonly known as clustered coneflower, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the South coast of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of more or less spherical heads of white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Clustered coneflower grows in sandy soil in heath or sandplain between East Mount Barren and Condingup, near the south coast 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 polycephalus 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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