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Acacia cognata
Also called Narrow Leaf Bower Wattle, River Wattle
Acacia cognata is a fast-growing, sometimes sticky shrub or small tree from south-eastern Australia, valued for its arching, willowy branches and pale yellow spring flowers. It grows best in moist, well-drained soil in a sunny to lightly shaded spot.
Acacia cognata, commonly known as bower wattle, river wattle or narrow-leaf bower-wattle, 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 or tree with willowly and arching branchlets, narrowly linear phyllodes, spherical heads of pale lemon-yellow flowers and linear, papery, glabrous, pods.
Bower wattle grows in granite-based soils in moist gullies and hillsides in forest. It occurs on the coastal plain and adjacent foothills of the Great Dividing Range south from the Nowra district in New South Wales to near Orbost with an isolated occurrence near Pokolbin in New South Wales.
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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.
