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Stoebe alopecuroides is a shrub up to about one metre tall, native to the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa, where it grows in forest edges and fynbos. Grow it in bright, open, well-drained conditions, as it is a fynbos plant adapted to dry, nutrient-poor soils.
Stoebe alopecuroides is a shrub growing up to one metre tall. It is endemic to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape where it occurs in forest edges and fynbos from Riversdale to Uitenhage. The leaves are stiffly needle-shaped with the edges rolled in, spreading and twisted. The flower heads are in masses in elongated veins and without ribbon flowers. They are white and surrounded by several rows of brown papery bracts.
Stoebe aethiopica · Common Snakebush · Wingleaf Snakebush · Cone Snakebush · Stoebe gomphrenoides · Stoebe leucocephala · Hedgehog Snakebush · Stoebe montana · Grey Snakebush · Spiky Snakebush · Stoebe phyllostachya · Creeping Snakebush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stoebe alopecuroides 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.
