Pink Pokers

Grevillea petrophiloides is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 m (3 ft 3 in – 13 ft 1 in). Its leaves are 60–250 mm (2.4–9.8 in) long and divided, with three to nine lobes that are sometimes divided again, resulting in more than ten end lobes that are linear, 10–130 mm (0.39–5.12 in) long and 0.5–3.5 mm (0.020–0.138 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in clusters on the ends of sometimes branched canes held above the foliage, the clusters cylindrical on a rachis 60–200 mm (2.4–7.9 in) long. The flowers are usually pink to reddish pink and bluish-grey, varying with subspecies, the pistil 14–21.5 mm (0.55–0.85 in) long. Flowering time varies with subspecies and the fruit is an oval to more or less spherical follicle 7–18 mm (0.28–0.71 in) long.

Subspecies magnifica grows on or near granite outcrops mainly between Tammin and Pantapin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions, subspecies petrophiloides in shrubland or heath on sandplains between the lower Murchison River, Quairading and Hyden in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Mallee bioregions and subspecies remota grows on or near granite outcrops from near Varley to Norseman in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.