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Leucopogon lloydiorum

Leucopogon lloydiorum
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon lloydiorum is a slender, shrubby heath from south-west Western Australia, growing to about 1 m with white, tube-shaped flowers. It is a native of white sand heath and is grown only rarely, so care is best based on its sandy, dry-heath habitat.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid soggy sand and let the top to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy mix, ideally acidic, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon lloydiorum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with elliptic leaves clustered near the ends of branchlets, and white, densely-bearded, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows on white sand in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia. The type specimen was growing in low mallee heath.

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 lloydiorum 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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