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Acacia costata is a low, spreading wattle shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown for its golden yellow flower heads in late autumn to early winter. It needs full sun and very well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil.
Acacia costata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with more or less sessile, narrowly lance-shaped, straight or slightly curved, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and terete, dark reddish brown pods.
This species of wattle is native to an area along the west coast between Walebing, Calingiri and Cataby, with an earlier collection from near Perth, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. It is usually found on lateritic ridges and sandplains growing in sandy or gravelly soils.
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 costata 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.
