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Pimelea haematostachya

Pimelea haematostachya
Photo: Murry Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Pimelea haematostachya, the pimelea poppy, is a perennial herb or small subshrub native to Queensland, grown for its heads of red flowers. It is a wild grassland species with little horticultural history, so cultivation advice is general.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect from frost below about 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Pimelea haematostachya, commonly known as pimelea poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a perennial herb with narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of red flowers.

Where it grows

This pimelea grows in grassland from near the Gilbert River to near the Burnett River in north Queensland.

Other Pimelea plants

Dune swale daphne · Pimelea aeruginosa · Alpine Rice Flower · Short Leaved Riceflower · Pimelea amabilis · Pimelea ammocharis · Pimelea angustifolia · Pimelea approximans · Pimelea aquilonia · Pimelea argentea · Pimelea avonensis · Bootlace Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea haematostachya 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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