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Zieria covenyi

Zieria covenyi
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Coveny's zieria is a small erect shrub in the citrus family, endemic to a tiny area of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, with only about 270 known plants. It spreads mainly by root suckers and is rarely grown outside its native habitat.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, ideally acidic to neutral.
Temperature
10–28 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
EC. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Zieria covenyi, commonly known as the Coveny's zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub which multiples asexually from root suckers and has three-part, clover-like leaves and clusters of white to pink flowers with four petals and four stamens.

Where it grows

Zieria covenyi is only known from two populations totalling about 270 plants on Narrow Neck Peninsula in the Blue Mountains, where it grows in sandy soil in eucalypt woodland.

Other Zieria plants

Zieria abscondita · Zieria actites · Zieria adenodonta · Zieria adenophora · Zieria alata · Stinkwood · Zieria aspalathoides · Zieria baeuerlenii · Zieria bifida · Zieria boolbunda · Zieria buxijugum · Zieria caducibracteata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zieria covenyi 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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