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Styphelia flexifolia is a small, rigid shrub from south-east Queensland, growing about 30 to 60 cm tall with crowded, sharp-pointed leaves and small white bell-shaped flowers. It is a little-known native species, so most care advice here is general guidance for Styphelia shrubs in similar native-garden conditions.
Styphelia flexifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-east Queensland. It is a rigid shrub with many softly-hairy branchlets, crowded, sharply-pointed linear to lance-shaped leaves, and small, white, bell-shaped flowers that are bearded inside.
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 flexifolia 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.
