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Acacia argyrophylla
Silver mulga is a compact, dense, spreading Australian shrub grown for its silvery blue-grey foliage and golden yellow flower heads. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and tolerates dry conditions once established.
Acacia argyrophylla, known colloquially as silver mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a compact, dense, spreading shrub with lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, racemes of spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and dark brown linear pods up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long.
Silver mulga is found only in South Australia from around Hawker in the Flinders Ranges in the north, extending south to around Monarto. Other populations are found on the Yorke Peninsula and around Onkaparinga Gorge. It often situated on slopes and low hills as part of open woodland and mallee communities. It is listed as "extinct" in Victoria, under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia argyrophylla 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.
