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Leucopogon rugulosus

Leucopogon rugulosus
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon rugulosus is a small erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing up to about 1 m high and wide, with white tubular flowers from May to September. It is a native of heath and mallee woodland and is not a commonly grown garden plant.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry summers in its native range.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
Mild to warm climates, roughly 5-35 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon rugulosus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with a single stem at ground level, elliptic or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and erect clusters of three to nine white, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows in heath and open mallee woodland in a restricted to an area near Cascade in the Mallee 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 rugulosus 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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