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Lavender Grevillea

Lavender Grevillea

Grevillea lavandulacea

Family Proteaceae

Drought-hardy heath shrub

About

A low, spreading grevillea found through the stony hills of the southern Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, its red-pink flowers a reliable late-winter to early-summer nectar source for honeyeaters and spinebills.

How to spot it

Narrow, needle-like to elliptic leaves 5-40mm long. Clusters of red or pink flowers with a distinctive silky-hairy outer surface, on a low shrub usually under 1m tall.

Found in

  • Mount Remarkable National Park

Source: Wikipedia

Photo: Melburnian (CC BY 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons