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Eastern Blombush

Metalasia trivialis

Also called Rock Flowerbush

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
Cape Prov.

About

Metalasia trivialis is a flowering subshrub in the Asteraceae family. The species is endemic to the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape. It occurs mainly between Ladismith and Grahamstown and there are also populations at Cathcart and Stutterheim.

It grows on mountain slopes and plains, rocky, clayey and sandy soils from 0 - 1500 m and is part of the fynbos.

Other Metalasia plants

Pointy Blombush · Crooked Blombush · Metalasia agathosmoides · Metalasia albescens · Metalasia alfredii · Golden Blombush · Metalasia bodkinii · Shortleaf Blombush · Lime Blombush · Ball Blombush · Metalasia cephalotes · Dense Blombush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Metalasia trivialis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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