Acacia daviesioides is a small, spiny, glabrous wattle shrub endemic to Western Australia, growing to about 0.3 to 1 m with golden yellow flower heads. It is a wild species of dry sandplains and is rarely grown, so care advice is based on general wattle cultivation.
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland
About
Acacia daviesioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an intricate, glabrous shrub with sharply pointed, linear phyllodes that are continuous with the branchlets, spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and linear, leathery to crusty pods.
Where it grows
This species of wattle grows in sand, loam and sandy-clay on sandplains and stony screes in heath, open scrub or shrubland. It has a disjunct distribution, occurring from Mingenew to Ballidu-Kalannie with an outlier at Jingemarra Station, and near Mount Jackson, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison bioregions of Western Australia.
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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.