Plant in full sun in well-drained soil in a warm site; sensitive to temperatures below 25° F. An attractive soft foliaged Grevillea that can be used near pathways and other locations where its attractive flowers and foliage can be admired and touched.

This plant is endemic to a small area in the winter wet and summer hot and dry area east of Geraldton in Western Australia. The genus name Grevillea honors Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809), a patron of botany, a very close friend of Sir Joseph Banks, and president of the Royal Society of London. The specific epithet is from the Latin word 'filum' meaning "a thread" and 'lobus' meaning "a lobe" in reference to the fine dissected foliage.

Grevillea fililoba was previously described as a subspecies of Grevillea thelemanniana (G. thelemanniana ssp. fililoba) but was more recently been elevated to species level. We have grown this plant since 1989, initially listing it as Grevillea thelemanniana then as Grevillea thelemanniana ssp. fililoba from 1994 until 2009 when we changed our listing to Grevillea fililoba after realizing that Peter M. Olde and Neil Marriott had elevated the subspecies to species level in their The Grevillea Book in 1994. We also grow what is now considered to be the real Grevillea thelemanniana, which we list asGrevillea thelemanniana 'Baby'. There were several other plants circulating in the nursery trade in the 1990s as Grevillea thelemanniana that were quite different from the plant we grew and there still is considerable confusion in collections. Interestingly Grevillea thelemanniana var. thelemanniana was a plant formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in Novarum Stirpium Decades from an unpublished description by the Austrian botanist Charles von Hügel from a plant growing in his personal botanical garden in Hietzing, a district of Vienna. Hügel was well known for his introduction of plants and flowers from New Holland (Australia) to Europe's public gardens. 

Information displayed on this page about Grevillea fililoba is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.