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Acacia formidabilis is a low, spreading wattle shrub native to south-west Western Australia, found on sandy plains and hillsides. It is grown in gardens for its golden flowers and needs sandy, very well-drained soil and full sun.
Acacia formidabilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a diffuse, spreading subshrub with softly hairy branchlets, narrowly elliptic or oblong, sharply pointed, leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of pale to deep golden yellow flowers and flat, straight, papery pods.
This species of wattle grows on undulating plains and hillsides in sandy soils in scattered locations between Paynes Find and Perenjori and south-east to Southern Cross usually in tall open shrubland.
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 formidabilis 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.
