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Acacia argutifolia
East Barrens wattle is a low, spreading, dense shrub native to southern Western Australia, growing mostly in the Fitzgerald River National Park. It is a wild species of heath and mallee, grown only occasionally in gardens, and needs open, sunny, well-drained conditions.
Acacia argutifolia, commonly known as East Barrens wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, intricate shrub with linear phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong, somewhat papery pods up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long.
East Barrens wattle is mostly restricted to the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Esperance Plains bioregion of southern Western Australia, where it grows in shallow sand over quartzite in low open heath, shrubland and mallee communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia argutifolia 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.
