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Leucopogon reflexus

Leucopogon reflexus
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon reflexus, heart-leaf beard-heath, is a small erect Western Australian shrub with white tubular flowers, native to coastal dunes, granite outcrops and winter-wet sites. It suits a well-drained, lightly watered native garden in a mild climate.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging, especially in summer.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty acidic soil; avoid lime and rich fertilizers.
Temperature
Mild to warm, roughly 5–30 °C; frost-tender when young.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon reflexus, commonly known as heart-leaf beard-heath, 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 small, usually downturned leaves and short, dense spikes of tube-shaped, white flowers.

Where it grows

Heart-leaf beard-heath grows on coastal dunes, granite outcrops and winter-wet areas in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren 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 reflexus 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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