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Styphelia angustifolia

Styphelia angustifolia
Photo: John Tann, CC BY-SA 4.0

Styphelia angustifolia is an erect shrub from eastern New South Wales, growing up to about 1.8 m, with narrow leaves and pale green, pendent summer flowers. It is a native Australian heath grown mainly in gardens with conditions similar to its sandstone forest home.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic, sandy or sandstone-derived soil; poor in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pale green, pendent flowers in summer.

Where it grows

This styphelia grows in forest on sandstone, mainly from the lower Blue Mountains to Pigeon House Mountain, but also in the Warialda district, in eastern New South Wales.

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 angustifolia 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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