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Acacia cerastes is a small, intricately branched wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a drought-tolerant garden or xeriscape plant. It needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Acacia cerastes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, intricately-branched, glabrous shrub with winding, striated branchlets, its phyllodes reduced to tiny horn-like projections, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, thinly leathery pods.
This species of wattle is only known from Mount Gibson and Ninghan Station stations in the Avon Wheatbelt and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia, where it grows on rocky hills.
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 cerastes 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.
