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Pink Zieria

Zieria veronicea

Pink Zieria
Photo: Chris Clarke, CC BY 2.5
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia to NE. Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Zieria veronicea, commonly known as pink zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, lemon-scented shrub densely covered with velvety hairs. Up to three flowers with four pink petals appear in leaf axils in late spring.

Where it grows

Zieria veronicea is most common in Victoria where it grows in sandy mallee and mallee heath in the western part of the state and near the Gippsland Lakes. It is also found in the south-east of South Australia and in eastern Tasmania where it grows in heath or heathy 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 veronicea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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