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Fringed Beard Heath

Leucopogon collinus

Fringed Beard Heath
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon collinus, commonly known as fringed beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect or spreading shrub with narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped, bearded flowers.

Where it grows

Leucopogon collinus grows in woodland and coastal heath and is found south from Eden in New South Wales, in coastal areas east of Orbost and other scattered locations further westwards in inland Victoria, and is common and widespread in Tasmania.

Other Leucopogon plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon collinus 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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