About Styphelia pallida (R.Br.) Spreng.
Styphelia pallida is most often a neat, dense, and compact shrub, but may sometimes grow as a diffuse to erect shrub reaching around 30 centimeters in height. Its leaves are lance-shaped, approximately 10 millimeters (0.39 inches) long, and have toothed margins. Tubular flowers, colored creamy white to pale yellow and rarely pink or red, grow in the leaf axils and appear for most of the year. Commonly called kick bush, this plant grows on yellow or grey sand, red or brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone, and limestone. It occurs in a wide range of habitats, including flats, hillslopes, winter-wet sites, and the edges of lakes, across the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, and Warren biogeographical regions of Western Australia. This species is not known to be in cultivation, in part because good cutting wood for propagation is difficult to obtain.
