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Leucopogon denticulatus

Leucopogon denticulatus
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon denticulatus is a small erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 30 to 60 cm tall with white tube-shaped flowers. It suits sandy, free-draining sites in full sun and is a native plant rather than a common garden subject.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry out between waterings, as it is adapted to dry sandplains.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil, ideally with low nutrients.
Temperature
Tolerates Mediterranean-type conditions; protect from frost, which may damage it below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon denticulatus 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 shrub with hairy young branchlets, overlapping egg-shaped leaves with small teeth on the edges and white, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows on sandplains and salt flats in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions 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 audax · Leucopogon australis · Styphelia blepharolepis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon denticulatus 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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