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Lasiopetalum behrii
Lasiopetalum behrii, commonly known as the pink velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white to pink and reddish-brown flowers.
Pink velvet bush grows in mallee, on sand dunes and on granite or limestone hills and occurs in the south of Western Australia, southern South Australia, the north-west of Victoria and the far south-west of New South Wales.
Lasiopetalum adenotrichum · Lasiopetalum angustifolium · Slender 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 behrii 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.
