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Petalostylis labicheoides
Also called Slender Petalostylis
Petalostylis labicheoides, the butterfly bush, is an upright, rounded native Australian shrub of 1 to 3 m with yellow to orange flowers in spring. It suits dry, well-drained sites in full sun and tolerates poor, rocky soils.
Petalostylis labicheoides commonly known as butterfly bush, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is an upright, rounded perennial with yellow to orange petals and grows in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales.
Butterfly bush grows on rocky soils near watercourses, dunes, sand plains and rocky ridges in New South Wales, Western Australia South Australia and Queensland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petalostylis labicheoides 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.
