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Leucopogon capitellatus is a small erect shrub in the heath family (Ericaceae), native to south-west Western Australia, with white flowers in short spikes. Few horticultural details are documented, so cultivation advice is general, based on its heath-family relatives.
Leucopogon capitellatus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, more or less glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in). It has linear to lance-shaped leaves longer than about 12 mm (0.47 in) long, tapering to a rigid point on the tip. The flowers are borne on short spikes on the ends of branches or in leaf axils on short side branches, with small bracts and bracteoles about half as long as the sepals. The sepals are broad, about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and the petals white and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the petal lobes longer than the petal tube.
It was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon capitellatus 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.
