Isopogon divergens
Isopogon divergens, commonly known as spreading coneflower, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves and more or less spherical heads of glabrous pink flowers followed by an oval to cylindrical fruiting cone. Description. "Isopogon crithmifolius" is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has reddish brown branchlets. The leaves are long on a petiole up to long, pinnate or bipinnate with cylindrical leaflets wide. The flowers are arranged in spherical, oblong or oval, sessile heads long  in diameter with egg-shaped involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are about long, pink, often tinted with mauve and are glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a hairy oval nut, fused with others in a spherical cone long. Taxonomy. "Isopogon crithmifolius" was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the "Supplementum" to his "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen" from specimens collected in 1827 near the Swan River, by Charles Fraser. Distribution and habitat. Spreading coneflower grows in shrubland and heath and is widely distributed between the Murchison River  and Lake Grace in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Isopogon divergens" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.