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Styphelia woodsii

Leucopogon woodsii

Also called Broom Beard Heath

Styphelia woodsii
Photo: Gmgoods, CC BY-SA 4.0

Styphelia woodsii is a slender, low Australian heath shrub (about 20 to 40 cm tall) with white tubular flowers and drooping, densely bearded petal lobes. It is a native of sandy soils and is mostly grown for interest in native or dry gardens rather than as a common ornamental.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Very well-drained sandy or gritty soil, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Tolerates a range of temperatures; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Styphelia woodsii, commonly known as nodding beard-heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a slender shrub with more or less erect, egg-shaped leaves, and pendent white, tube-shaped flowers with densely bearded lobes.

Where it grows

This styphelia grows in shrubland, mallee scrub and heath in deep sand or the crests of sand dunes in the Little Desert and southern Big Desert of western Victoria, in the south-east of South Australia, and in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.

Other Styphelia plants

Styphelia foliosa · Styphelia humifusa · Styphelia pallida · Astroloma · Coleanthera · Styphelia allittii · Styphelia brevicuspis · Styphelia breviflora · Styphelia conchifolia · Styphelia concinna · Styphelia conferta · Styphelia conostephioides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Styphelia woodsii 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.

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