title: Calytrix strigosa
text: # Calytrix strigosa
  
  Calytrix strigosa is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.
  
  ## Description
  
  The semi-prostrate shrub typically grows to a height of 0.15 to 1.6 metres (0.5 to 5.2 ft). It usually blooms between August and November producing pink-purple and yellow star-shaped flowers.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  The plant was first described by Alan Cunningham in 1834.
  
  The epithet, strigosa, is a Botanical Latin adjective describing the sepals of the plant as having "straight rigid close-pressed rather short bristle-like hairs"..
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Found on sand dunes and sand plains in a large area from the Mid West extending into the Wheatbelt and the Swan Coastal Plain where it grows in sandy lateritic soils.
  
  