Leucopogon obovatus facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Leucopogon obovatus
Scientific classification
Genus:	Leucopogon
Species:	obovatus
Occurrence data from AVH

Leucopogon obovatus is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae, occurring at floodplains and hills at southern coastal areas of Southwest Australia. The habit is an erect shrub between 0.3 and 1.5 metres in height, occasionally reaching 2 metres. They occur on white and grey sands, rocky loam, and at laterite or granite beneath gravelly soils. White flowers appear in a period beginning in March or May that extends until November.

It was first collected and described by Jacques Labillardière, and revised in 1810 by Robert Brown to the current alignment to the genus Leucopogon. They attract moyadong, a parrot subspecies Platycercus icterotis icterotis, which eat their fruit.