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Acacia chapmanii is a dense, intricately branched wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.5 to 2 m tall with needle-like phyllodes and golden yellow flower heads. Grow it in full sun and well-drained soil; it is a sparse, specialist plant rarely grown outside its native range.
Acacia chapmanii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, intricately-branched shrub with glabrous branchlets, sessile, needle-shaped phyllodes continuous with the branches, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and curved to coiled pods.
Acacia chapmanii subsp. australis grows in sand and sandy gravel in low heath in plains and swampy areas, as is only known from near Bolgart in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions. Subspecies chapmanii grows in sand, laterite and clay loam, sometimes on saline flats, in heath, scrub and disturbed areas, and is only known from near Three Springs and Marchagee in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia chapmanii 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.
