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Acacia crispula

Acacia crispula
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia crispula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a multi-stemmed, prostrate or low-spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, hairy elliptic or narrowly elliptic to more or less lance-shaped phyllodes with wavy edges, spherical heads of pale yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, straight to curved, crusty to leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is found from near Cranbrook to Cape Arid National Park with one collection near Wagin, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia, where it grows in sandy, clay, loamy and gravelly soils. It is usually found in mallee shrubland, but also in heath, low scrub and open wandoo woodlands.

Other Acacia plants

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 crispula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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