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Forked Rice Flower

Pimelea hewardiana

Forked Rice Flower
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0

Forked rice-flower is a small Australian shrub of mallee shrubland, growing 40 to 70 cm tall with yellow flower clusters. It needs well-drained, often rocky soil and full sun, and is best kept as a native garden plant.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry mallee conditions, though sources note a preference for moisture while young.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates rocky ground.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates cool conditions, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. South Australia to W. & C. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Pimelea hewardiana, commonly known as forked rice-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and head-like clusters of 7 to 34 unisexual yellow flowers.

Where it grows

Forked rice-flower grows in mallee shrubland, usually in rocky ground, from the Glenelg River to the Bacchus Marsh area, west of Melbourne. It was formerly found in south-eastern South Australia, but is now considered to be extinct in that state.

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 hewardiana 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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