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Prostanthera incurvata

Prostanthera incurvata
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY 2.0

Prostanthera incurvata is a small, erect, spreading mintbush shrub from inland Western Australia, grown for its pink to red, sometimes yellow flowers. It needs sun, good drainage and dry conditions, as it comes from arid and semi-arid country.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soil.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts; protect from prolonged frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Prostanthera incurvata is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the inland of Western Australia. It is a small, erect shrub with hairy branches, narrow oblong to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and pink to red, sometimes yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This mintbush sometimes grows in low woodland, and has been collected in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee biogeographic regions.

Other Prostanthera plants

Prostanthera albiflora · Prostanthera albohirta · Prostanthera althoferi · Sand Mintbush · Prostanthera arapilensis · Tranquility Mintbush · Scarlet Mintbush · Prostanthera athertoniana · Prostanthera baxteri · Downy Mintbush · Lilac Mint Bush · Limestone Mintbush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prostanthera incurvata 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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