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Leucopogon squarrosus is a small erect Australian shrub in the heath family, native to south-west Western Australia, with dense clusters of white bell-shaped flowers. It is a wild heathland species rarely grown in gardens, and it prefers the free-draining, acidic soils of its native bush.
Leucopogon squarrosus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young branchlets, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves and dense, erect clusters of 5 to 14 white flowers on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils.
Subspecies squarrosus grows in heathland in the understorey of Banksia woodland or in winter-wet heath between the southern suburbs of Perth to near Gingin in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. Subspecies trigynus is apparently restricted to an area to the west and south-west of Gingin.
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 squarrosus 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.
