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Lechenaultia floribunda, free-flowering leschenaultia, is a small openly branched shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its pale blue to mauve or creamy flowers. It needs well-drained sandy soil and good light, and dislikes wet roots.
Lechenaultia floribunda, commonly known as free-flowering leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched shrub or subshrub with crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and compact groups of pale blue to pale mauve or creamy white flowers.
Free-flowering leschenaultia grows in heath, scrub or woodland and is found in near-coastal areas between Kalbarri and Perth, and inland as far as Wongan Hills in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
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