Baeckea grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered baeckea,[2] is a common heathland shrub found in coastal central Western Australia. It has white or pink flowers from August to December.
Baeckea grandiflora is an upright, open shrub, with narrow, upward to spreading stems, up to a height 0.5 to 2 metres (2 to 7 ft). The leaves are mostly terete or more or less triangular, arranged opposite, widely spaced, either decussate or clustered on smaller branches, 2.5 to 10 millimetres (0.10 to 0.39 in) long, 0.5–1.6 mm (0.020–0.063 in) wide, 0.3–0.6 mm (0.012–0.024 in) thick, rounded or slightly pointed at the apex on a petiole 0.2–0.7 mm (0.0079–0.0276 in) long. The large, single, white or pale pink flowers on a pedicel 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long. The sepals are shorter than the petals. Flowering occurs from August to December producing pink-white flowers that have a diameter of 10 to 15 mm (0.39 to 0.59 in).[2][3][4]
Baeckea grandiflora was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1867 and the description was published in Compositae Flora Australiensis[5] The specific epithet (grandiflora) means "large" in reference to the large size of the flowers.[4][6]
Large-flowered baeckea is often found on plains, undulating hills and breakaways in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region around the Shire of Gingin where it grows on gravelly loamy and sandy soils over laterite.[2]
Baeckea grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered baeckea, is a common heathland shrub found in coastal central Western Australia. It has white or pink flowers from August to December.
