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Acacia asparagoides is a small wattle shrub from a restricted area of the Blue Mountains in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It is grown mainly as a native garden shrub, and it needs sharp drainage and full sun in a warm, dry climate.
Acacia asparagoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect or spreading shrub with sharply-pointed, more or less rigid, linear phyllodes, bright yellow flowers arranged in a spherical head of 15 to 30 in axils, and narrowly oblong and curved pods up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long.
This species of wattle is found between Newnes Junction and Lawson in the Blue Mountains where it grows in sandy soils on sandstone or granite in dry sclerophyll forest, less frequently in heathland.
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 asparagoides 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.
