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Styphelia inopinata

Styphelia inopinata is a robust, spreading shrub from the heath family, known only from a small area of Western Australia. It grows up to about 1.8 m and is grown mainly in native gardens in its region.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry conditions typical of its native sandplain habitat.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil, free-draining and low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers and mild winters; frost-tender in cold climates.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia inopinata is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a robust, spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets and usually erect, narrowly elliptic, sharply-pointed leaves and reddish pink, very narrowly bell-shaped flowers, usually arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Styphelia inopinata is only known from a granite breakaway north of the Murchison River, east of Kalbarri National Park in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of 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 inopinata 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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