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Stenanthemum liberum

Stenanthemum liberum is a dwarf or prostrate shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing only up to about 5 cm tall with hairy stems and small leaves and tube-shaped flowers. It is a rare, narrowly distributed wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care notes below are general guidance for the genus.

Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings, as it is adapted to dry, sandy conditions.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil with low fertility.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from prolonged freezing.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia

About

Stenanthemum liberum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a dwarf or prostrate shrub with densely hairy young stems, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and densely hairy heads of tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This species grows in open woodland and is only known from a small are near South Ironcap, east of Hyden in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Stenanthemum plants

Stenanthemum arens · Stenanthemum argenteum · Stenanthemum bremerense · Stenanthemum centrale · Stenanthemum complicatum · Stenanthemum divaricatum · Stenanthemum emarginatum · Stenanthemum humile · Stenanthemum intricatum · Stenanthemum limitatum · Stenanthemum mediale · Stenanthemum nanum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stenanthemum liberum 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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