About Banksia armata (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
Banksia armata (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele is a shrub that can grow sprawling, spreading, or upright. It typically reaches a height of 1.5 to 3 meters, which is 4 feet 11 inches to 9 feet 10 inches, and sometimes forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are deeply serrated, measuring 20 to 80 millimeters, 0.79 to 3.15 inches, long and 8 to 25 millimeters, 0.31 to 0.98 inches, wide. Each side of the leaf has five to thirteen sharply pointed lobes, which are wedge-shaped to narrow egg-shaped. Its flowers are arranged in spikes holding between 45 and 70 individual flowers. Each flower has a yellow, sometimes pink, perianth that is 25 to 39 millimeters, 0.98 to 1.54 inches, long. Flowering takes place from June to November, and the fruit it produces is an egg-shaped follicle 9 to 10 millimeters, 0.35 to 0.39 inches, long. This species is widespread across most of south-west Australia. Its main range lies between Perth and Albany, but it also grows near Mount Lesueur to the north, and between Esperance and Israelite Bay on the south coast. It grows in sandy loam or rocky soils, in habitats of tall shrubland or low woodland.
