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Acacia anarthros

Acacia anarthros
Photo: Kevin R. Thiele, CC BY 3.0 au

Acacia anarthros is a small, spiny, erect or prostrate wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 10 to 50 cm tall in heath and open woodland. It is a native species rather than a common garden plant, so it is mainly grown in native plant collections.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil, with low fertility; acid to neutral.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates heat and light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia anarthros is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with bipinnate leaves with 1 leaflet, each with 2 or 3 pairs of pinnules, spherical heads of 14 to 17 flowers, and narrowly oblong pods up to about 60 mm (2.4 in) long.

Where it grows

This wattle has a limited range around New Norcia as a part of heathland or open Eucalyptus wandoo or Corymbia calophylla woodland communities, and sometimes in heath.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia anarthros by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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