''Leucopogon sprengelioides'' is an erect shrub in the family

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

found in

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, where it grows on granite outcrops and hill, ridges and breakaways and on coastal limestone. It grows to a height of 0.2 - 0.8 m and its white flowers may be seen from March to April or July to November. It was first described in 1845 by

Otto Wilhelm Sonder Otto Wilhelm Sonder (18 June 1812, Bad Oldesloe – 21 November 1881) was a German botanist and pharmacist. Life A native of Holstein, Sonder studied at Kiel University, where he sat pharmaceutical examinations in 1835, before becoming the pr ...

. The specific epithet, ''sprengelioides'', derives from the name, '' Sprengelia'', and the Greek, ''-oides'', meaning "like", indicating that the plant is like a ''Sprengelia''.

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''Leucopogon sprengelioides'': Occurrence data map
from

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''Leucopogon sprengelioides'' (Flickr search)
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