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Petrophile serruriae

Petrophile serruriae
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Petrophile serruriae is a low to medium shrub from southwestern Western Australia, valued for its needle-like leaves and silky yellow to pink flower heads. It grows in coastal limestone and needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Very well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil, ideally alkaline to neutral limestone-type conditions.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; frost-tolerant to light frost, protect from prolonged freezing.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile serruriae is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a shrub with crowded, pinnate, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed leaves, and oval heads of silky-hairy yellow, greyish mauve to pink flowers.

Where it grows

Petrophile serruriae is common in coastal limestone and is widespread from near Geraldton to near Albany in the south-west of Western Australia.

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 serruriae 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.

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