Hibbertia depressa facts for kids

Hibbertia depressa is a shrub in the Dilleniaceae family that is native to Western Australia.

The shrub has a prostrate to sprawling habit and typically grows to a height of 0.3 m (1 ft 0 in). It blooms between September and February and produces yellow flowers.

The species was first formally described by the botanist Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in 1845 as part of Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's work Dilleniaceae published in Plantae Preissianae. The only synonyms are Candollea fasciculata and Candollea kochioides.

The species is commonly occurring throughout the Great Southern region of Western Australia between Cranbrook in the north and Albany in the south where it is found in a variety of habitats including coastal areas and hill slopes growing in sandy lateritic soils.