Family: Dilleniaceae
Plant: A low sprawling, prostrate shrub up to 30cm high.
Flowers: Yellow flower with 5 broad spreading petals about 1cm across with 15-20 stamens surrounding 3 hairy carpels. The almost stalkless flowers are borne at the end of the stems.
Flowering: July-October.
Fruit: Follicle
Leaves: Narrow oblanceolate to linear 3-10mm long and about 1mm wide with revolute margins. The leaves are blunt, rough, hairy and alternately arranged.
Habitat: Widespread in heathland.
Features: Low-growing shrub. Narrow rough leaves. Small 5-petalled yellow flowers.
Name:
Hibbertia After the English merchant and patron of botany George Hibbert
serpyllifolia From it having leaves similar to those of Thymus serpyllum, the Creeping Thyme
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Type |
Shrub, Scrambler |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Linear |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Rough |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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