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Acacia dilatata is a small, sprawling or compact wattle shrub native to south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a drought-tolerant garden or native plant. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, and avoid overwatering.
Acacia dilatata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling or compact, multistemmed shrub with leathery phyllodes with one edge straight and the other edge convex, spherical to oval heads of golden yellow flowers and curved, terete, crusty pods.
This species of wattle found on found on sandplains, clay flats and rocky lateritic ridges growing in sandy or clay soils in scattered populations from Mingenew south to Mogumber, 30 km (19 mi) west of Wongan Hills and near Darkin Swamp about 35 km (22 mi) south-west of York, in heath or low shrubland, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain 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 dilatata 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.
