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Petrophile squamata

Petrophile squamata
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0

Petrophile squamata is an erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its deeply divided leaves and oval heads of yellow flowers. It needs sun, excellent drainage and dry conditions, as is typical of Australian heath plants.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid wet feet.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil, low in phosphorus, similar to native kwongan heath.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile squamata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub usually with deeply divided, three-lobed and sharply-pointed leaves, and oval heads of hairy yellow or creamy-yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Petrophile squamata is a common and widespread species growing in sandy heath, shrubland or woodland between Perth and Israelite Bay.

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 squamata 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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