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Golden Heath

Styphelia adscendens

Golden Heath
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0

Golden heath is a low, spreading or prostrate shrub from south-eastern Australia, growing up to about 60 cm, with cream to yellowish flowers in winter and spring. It suits open, well-drained sites and is best grown in a native or Mediterranean-style garden.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
Hardy to around -5 °C; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia adscendens, commonly known as golden heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with lance-shaped leaves and cream-coloured, pale yellowish-green or reddish flowers arranged singly or in paris in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Golden heath grows in scrub, woodland and forest from south of Nerriga in New South Wales, in eastern and western Victoria, in far south-eastern South Australia and in Tasmania.

Other Styphelia plants

Styphelia foliosa · Styphelia humifusa · Styphelia pallida · Astroloma · Coleanthera · Styphelia allittii · Styphelia brevicuspis · Styphelia breviflora · Styphelia conchifolia · Styphelia concinna · Styphelia conferta · Styphelia conostephioides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Styphelia adscendens 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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