Leucopogon parviflorus (coast beard-heath)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leucopogon parviflorus, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio — fig. a Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 193554704

Leucopogon parviflorus, photographed by Cowirrie — fig. b Cowirrie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167637713

Leucopogon parviflorus, photographed by Kym Nicolson — fig. c Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164993351

Leucopogon parviflorus, photographed by T. Hammer — fig. d T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159802565

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Leucopogon parviflorus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Chatham Is.	CTM	AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand North	NZN
Norfolk Is.	NFK
Tasmania	TAS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,027 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	7.2 °C	9.3 °C	11.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	16.8 °C	20.9 °C	25.0 °C
Annual rainfall	535 mm	769 mm	1,257 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	51 mm	128 mm	217 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,027 research-grade observations of Leucopogon parviflorus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Cyathodes parviflora (Andrews) Allan
Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.
Leucopogon richei (Labill.) R.Br.
Leucopogon richei var. acutifolius Benth.
Leucopogon richei var. parviflorus (Andrews) Hook.f.
Styphelia gnidium Vent.
Styphelia parviflora H.Andrews
Styphelia richei Labill.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.