Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea alpina
Common name
Mountain Grevillea, Cat's Claws Grevillea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, mallee, and heath. Mostly ACT and west to Wagga Wagga and Albury..
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high or sprawling to almost prostrate. Branches often woolly hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, often crowded, mostly 0.5–3 cm long, 1.5–10 mm wide, of varying shapes, upper surface hairy to hairless and granular; lower surface hairy to hairless; margins entire, curved to rolled down (more so on narrower leaves). Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' red with green or yellow-cream at the tips; or pink, or red to yellow, cream, or green throughout, hairy outside, bearded usually above the middle inside. Gynoecium 8.5–20.5 mm long, not much longer than the flower, style reddish to green. Flowers in 2- to many-flowered clusters. Flowering: mainly winter and spring. Seed cases usually hairy, without dark stripes or blotches.
Hybridises with Grevillea lanigera.
In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~alpina (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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