This variable shrub can be low and spreading or upright and bushy with wiry stems that form an open rounded habit. It has small oblong pointed leaves and the tiny tube-shaped flowers appear in clusters along the stems during early spring.

Hardiness zones 8 to 10 

Leucopogon ericoides is naturally found in Australia from New South Wales to Victoria and extending to Tasmania growing in heath or in coastal dunes and on forest floors.

It prefers a well drained moderately fertile sandy soil in a sunny to semi shaded protected position and is frost and drought tolerant.

The Pink Beard-heath is grown for its flowers and is planted in bushland settings or parks and gardens along borders. It is suitable to coastal positions where it forms thickets and is salt spray tolerant. It establishes in 1 to 2 years but should be left undisturbed and mulched. It is also used in patio pots or on roof gardens. ID 2520

Leucopogon (loo-koh-POH-gon) ericoides (eric-oi-dee-s)      

Epacridaceae (ee-PAK-rid-AY-see-ee)