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Acacia deflexa is a small, often straggling wattle shrub native to south-western Western Australia, grown mainly for its pale golden yellow flower heads in August and September. It needs well-drained sandy soil and full sun, and is best suited to dry, mild climates.
Acacia deflexa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with broadly elliptic, elliptic or narrowly oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of pale golden yellow flowers and linear, strongly curved, papery pods.
This species of wattle grows in heath and low scrub in sand or sandy loam on open plains in the Bendering-Ardath, Cuballing-Harrismith and Manmanning areas in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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 deflexa 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.
