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Lasiopetalum angustifolium

Lasiopetalum angustifolium
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Lasiopetalum angustifolium, commonly known as narrow leaved lasiopetalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a low spreading or dense, compact shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and compact groups of pink to purplish flowers.

Where it grows

This lasiopetalum grows in tall shrubland, scrub and heath in near-coastal areas from Shark Bay to near Perth and on a few off-shore islands.

Other Lasiopetalum plants

Lasiopetalum adenotrichum · Slender Velvet Bush · Pink Velvet Bush · Lasiopetalum bracteatum · Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum · Lasiopetalum cenobium · Lasiopetalum compactum · Lasiopetalum cordifolium · Lasiopetalum dielsii · Coast Velvet Bush · Lasiopetalum drummondii · Lasiopetalum ferraricollinum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lasiopetalum angustifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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