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Leucopogon lasiophyllus

Leucopogon lasiophyllus
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon lasiophyllus is a small, erect, hairy-stemmed shrub from the heath family, endemic to south-west Western Australia. It is a native species of sandy or stony hillsides rather than a common garden plant, so growing it is about mimicking dry, well-drained native conditions.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and keep moist only while young.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very well-drained soil, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Mild temperate to Mediterranean conditions; frost tolerance is not well documented, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon lasiophyllus 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 linear to lance-shaped leaves and small, dense spikes of tube-shaped white flowers on the ends of branches and in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows on hillsides in sandy or stony soils in the Esperance Plains bioregion 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 lasiophyllus 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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