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Barrett's wattle is a small sprawling shrub from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, known only from two tiny populations in Prince Regent Nature Reserve. It is rarely cultivated, and the key to growing it is to mimic its dry, sandy, sunny native habitat.
Acacia barrettiorum, commonly known as the Barrett's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Prince Regent Nature Reserve in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with crowded triangular phyllodes, spherical heads of light golden-yellow flowers and linear, papery to thinly leathery pods up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.
Barrett's wattle is endemic to Prince Regent Nature Reserve in the Northern Kimberley bioregion of Western Australia where two small disjunct populations are known. The shrub grows in shallow sandy soils over and around sandstone as a part of low shrubland with spinifex.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia barrettiorum 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.
