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Acacia assimilis is a dense, rounded wattle shrub or small tree from south-west Western Australia, grown for its golden-yellow flower heads and thread-like foliage. Give it full sun and very free-draining soil, as it is adapted to sandy, low-nutrient ground.
Acacia assimilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading, rounded shrub or tree with thread-like, glabrous, green phyllodes, spherical to elliptic or oblong heads of golden or lemon-yellow flowers, and linear pods up to 85 mm (3.3 in) long.
Acacia assimilis is common from Mullewa to Boxwood Hill and east to the Norseman-Scaddan area in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it is grows on sandplains, in low-lying areas, among granite outcrops and on rocky hills. The southern part of the range is occupied by subsp. atroviridis and the two subspecies overlap in a narrow range, with some collections suggesting that hybridisation is possible.
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 assimilis 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.
