''Conospermum filifolium'' is a shrub endemic to
Western Australia.
The shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between July and December producing white-blue flowers.
It is found on sand plain areas in the southern
Wheatbelt,
Great Southern and
Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy to clay soils often over
laterite
Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...
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[
There are two ]subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
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* ''Conospermum filifolium'' subsp. ''australe''
* ''Conospermum filifolium'' subsp. ''filifolium''
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Eudicots of Western Australia
filifolium
''Filifolium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
There is only one known species, ''Filifolium sibiricum'', native to Japan, Korea, Mongolia, China ( Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi) and parts of Asiatic Russia ( ...
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1845
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