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Mirbelia floribunda
Mirbelia floribunda is a small, slender, much-branched shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its bluish-purple pea flowers from July to October. It needs excellent drainage and full sun in a mild climate.
Mirbelia floribunda, commonly known as purple mirbelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender or straggling, much-branched shrub with narrowly linear leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
Purple mirbelia grows in woodland and kwongan and is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Mirbelia aotoides · Mirbelia balsiformis · Bauer's Merbelia · Mirbelia confertiflora · Mirbelia corallina · Mirbelia densiflora · Mirbelia depressa · Holly Leaved Mirbelia · Mirbelia ferricola · Mirbelia granitica · Mirbelia longifolia · Mirbelia microphylla
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirbelia floribunda 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.
