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Acacia calamifolia
Also called Wallowa, Reed Leaf Wattle
Broom wattle (Acacia calamifolia) is a drought-tolerant native shrub from south-eastern Australia, growing 1.5 to 4 m tall with narrow phyllodes and pale yellow flower heads. It thrives in full sun, well-drained soil and dry conditions.
Acacia calamifolia, commonly known as wallowa, reed-leaf wattle or other common names, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with narrowly linear, terete or flat phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow to golden yellow flowers, and straight to curved or twisted, leathery pods.
Wallowa is a medium-sized ornamental wattle that is suitable as a low shelter plant. It can tolerate full sun or part shade and prefers a well-drained soil, but can endure short periods of water logging. It is drought and frost tolerant to −7 °C (19 °F).
Wallowa is found in South Australia from the Flinders Ranges in the north, south to the Tothill Ranges in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, east to Broken Hill and between Nymagee and Griffith in New South Wales. It is often a part of woodland and open scrubland communities where it grows in a variety of soil types different soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia calamifolia 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.
