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Common Pinheath

Styphelia tenuiflora

Common Pinheath
Photo: John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Common pinheath is a small, bushy, rigid shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing to about 1 m with cream, tube-shaped flowers. It is grown mainly as a native garden or revegetation plant in its home climate and needs free-draining soil.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely on rainfall and water sparingly, avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, gravelly or lateritic soil; sandy loam suits it well.
Temperature
Suited to mild Mediterranean-type climates; protect from severe frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia tenuiflora, commonly known as common pinheath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with broadly egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and whitish-cream, tube-shaped flowers with hairy lobes.

Where it grows

Common pinheath grows on gravelly lateritic soil in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions 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 tenuiflora 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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