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Pimelea alpina
Pimelea alpina is a low, spreading or prostrate alpine shrub from south-eastern Australia, bearing heads of pinkish red flowers. It thrives in cool, open, high-altitude conditions, so it suits rock gardens or cool climates rather than hot ones.
Pimelea alpina, the alpine rice-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, prostrate or spreading shrub or undershrub with narrowly elliptic leaves crowded at the ends of branches and heads of pinkish red or white flowers.
Alpine rice-flower occurs in woodland, heath or grassland in alpine and sub-alpine areas at altitudes between 1,500 and 2,000 m (4,900 and 6,600 ft) in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales and the eastern highlands of Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea alpina 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.
