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Rock Sprengelia

Sprengelia monticola

Rock Sprengelia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
EC. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Sprengelia monticola, commonly known as rock sprengelia, is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to the Blue Mountains in eastern New South Wales. It is an open or low-lying shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Rock sprengelia grows on wet sandstone rocks and cliff ledges in the Blue Mountains of eastern New South Wales, often with cliff ledge vegetation such as king fern (Todea barbara) and Dracophyllum secundum.

Other Sprengelia plants

Sprengelia distichophylla · Pink Swamp Heath · Sprengelia minima · Sprengelia montana · Sprengelia propinqua · Sprengelia · Sprengelia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sprengelia monticola by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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