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Leucopogon audax

Leucopogon audax
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon audax is a shrub in the heath family, native to a small area of south-west Western Australia, growing in heath and open woodland. It is a hardy native whose main care needs are full sun and good drainage, though it is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water lightly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil typical of heath; acidic conditions suit Ericaceae.
Temperature
Tolerant of the Mediterranean-type climate of south-west Western Australia; frost tolerance is not documented.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon audax is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, single-stemmed shrub with hairy branchlets, egg-shaped leaves and white flowers sometimes tinged with pink, in groups in upper leaf axils or on the ends of branches.

Where it grows

This leucopogon mainly grows in heath or open woodland in a restricted area in the Brookton-Pingelly in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

Other Leucopogon plants

Leucopogon acicularis · Leucopogon affinis · Leucopogon alternifolius · Leucopogon altissimus · Leucopogon amplectens · Beard Heath · Leucopogon apiculatus · Leucopogon assimilis · Leucopogon atherolepis · Leucopogon australis · Styphelia blepharolepis · Leucopogon borealis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon audax 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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