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Styphelia capillaris

Styphelia capillaris
Photo: jeans_Photos, CC BY 2.0

Styphelia capillaris, known as Horts' styphelia, is a dense, spreading Australian shrub from a small area of south-western Western Australia, grown mainly for its white flowers. It is a species, not a genus, and is rarely cultivated outside its native region, so care advice is drawn largely from general knowledge of Australian heath plants.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil with low fertility; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia capillaris, commonly known as Horts' styphelia, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of south-western Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and white flowers arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Horts' styphelia grows in heath and woodland on sand in a small area south-west of York, on the eastern Darling Range, in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

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 capillaris 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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