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Levenhookia pulcherrima
Beautiful stylewort is a tiny annual wildflower from southwest Australia, growing about 7 to 8 cm tall with pink to rose flowers. It is an ephemeral plant that completes its life cycle quickly, so it is grown as a short-lived annual in cultivation.
Levenhookia pulcherrima, the beautiful stylewort, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Levenhookia (family Stylidiaceae). It is an ephemeral annual that grows on average from 7–8 centimetres (2.8–3.1 in) tall. Lower leaves are spathulate while upper leaves are oblanceolate and up to 1.8 centimetres (0.71 in) long. Stems and older leaves are red. Flowers are pink to rose-coloured with the shorter anterior petals about 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long. The sensitive labellum is obovate and white with a circular grey-purple mark on either side of the terminal portion. Both leaves and stems of L. pulcherrima possess more glandular trichomes than in other Levenhookia species. When describing this new species, Sherwin Carlquist noted that it is most closely related to L. preissii and L.
Levenhookia chippendalei · Hairy Stylewort · Trumpet Stylewort · Eight Spotted Stylewort · Deceptive Stylewort · Preiss's Stylewort · Midget Stylewort · Slender Stylewort · Common Stylewort · Stylewort
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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.
