Leucopogon squarrosus

Leucopogon squarrosus is an erect shrub that typically grows up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) wide, its young branchlets usually covered with straight or curved hairs. The leaves are usually spirally arranged, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic, 2.2–8.2 mm (0.087–0.323 in) long, 0.9–4.4 mm (0.035–0.173 in) wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 0.3 mm (0.012 in) long. Both surfaces of the leaves are more or less glabrous, the lower surface a slightly paler shade of green. The flowers are arranged in groups of 5 to 14 on the ends of branchlets and in upper leaf axils, with narrowly egg-shaped bracts 1.7–2.4 mm (0.067–0.094 in) long, and egg-shaped bracteoles 1.5–2.6 mm (0.059–0.102 in) long. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, 2.5–3.6 mm (0.098–0.142 in) long, and the petals white and joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube 1.0–1.8 mm (0.039–0.071 in) long, the lobes 2.1–3.0 mm (0.083–0.118 in) long widely spreading, curved backwards and densely bearded inside. Flowering occurs from February to October and the fruit is an elliptic or oval drupe 1.3–1.9 mm (0.051–0.075 in) long.

Subspecies squarrosus grows in heathland in the understorey of Banksia woodland or in winter-wet heath between the southern suburbs of Perth to near Gingin in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. Subspecies trigynus is apparently restricted to an area to the west and south-west of Gingin.