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Spyridium vexilliferum
Winged spyridium (Spyridium vexilliferum) is a low to erect shrub from south-eastern Australia and Tasmania, grown mainly for its small white flower heads. It suits sandy, well-drained soil in full sun.
Spyridium vexilliferum, commonly known as winged spyridium, or helicopter bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and dense heads of small white flowers.
The variety vexilliferum grows in sandy heath, heathy woodland or mallee and on rocky outcrops from the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to scattered locations in south-western Victoria and in the east, north and west of Tasmania. Variety latifolium is only known from south-eastern South Australia to the Portland area in south-western Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spyridium vexilliferum 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.
