Grevillea drummondii is a shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

 which is endemic to the south west

Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world...

 region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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It grows to between 0.2 and 1 metre in height and produces flowers between June and December (early winter to early summer) in its native range. These are cream in bud, ageing to pink or red. The leaves

Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....

 are narrow-elliptic to narrow-obovate and are 1 to 3 cm long and 1.5 to 3 mm wide.

The species was first formally described by botanist Carl Meissner

Carl Meissner

Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner was a Swiss botanist.Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel...

, his description published in Plantae Preissianae in 1845. Grevillea pimeleoides

Grevillea pimeleoides

Grevillea pimeleoides is a shrub which is endemic to the south west region of Western Australia.It grows to between 0.6 and 2.5 metres in height and produces flowers between July and November in its native range. These are light orange in bud becoming yellow in flower, ageing to orange...

and G. centristigma

Grevillea centristigma

Grevillea centristigma is a shrub which is endemic to the south west region of Western Australia.It grows to between 0.15 and 0.5 metres in height and produces yellow or orange flowers between April and November in its native range.The species was originally described as a subspecies of Grevillea...

are closely related and were formerly treated as subspecies. Grevillea drummondii is classified as Priority Four Flora (Rare) under the Wildlife Conservation Act

Wildlife Conservation Act 1950

The Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 is an act of the Western Australian Parliament that provides the statute relating to conservation and legal protection of flora and fauna....

in Western Australia.