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Petrophile ericifolia

Petrophile ericifolia
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile ericifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a shrub with cylindrical leaves, and oval to spherical heads of hairy, yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Subspecies ericifolia grows in heath and scrub from the Fitzgerald River National Park to the Stirling Range and inland to Wagin. Subspecies subpubescens grows in low shrubland mostly between Northam and Kellerberrin.

Other Petrophile plants

Petrophile acicularis · Petrophile aculeata · Petrophile anceps · Petrophile antecedens · Petrophile arcuata · Petrophile aspera · Petrophile axillaris · Granite Petrophile · Petrophile biternata · Petrophile brevifolia · Conesticks · Petrophile carduacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petrophile ericifolia 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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