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Twisted Beard Heath

Leucopogon glacialis

Twisted Beard Heath
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia to W. & SW. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon glacialis, the twisted beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and crowded spikes of white flowers.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows in heath and heathy woodland and is found mostly in the south-west of Victoria and the far south-east of South 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 glacialis 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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