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Acacia flavipila

Acacia flavipila
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia flavipila is a spreading wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.5 to 2 m tall with golden yellow flower heads. It is a native species that is not commonly grown, and it prefers the open, free-draining conditions of its native sandy and clay loam plains.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Acacia flavipila 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 hairy branchlets, elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped phyllodes with stipules at the base, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, hairy, curved or coiled pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is found in scattered locations from near Cadoux and south-east to near Dunn Swamp about 89 km (55 mi) north-east of Ravensthorpe where it grows in sand and clay loam on undulating plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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 flavipila 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.

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