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Acacia glaucoptera
Also called Flat Wattle
Acacia glaucoptera, commonly known as clay wattle, flat wattle or claybush wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous, straight branchlets, winged, leathery phyllodes continuous with the branchlets, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and coiled and twisted, thinly crust-like black pods.
This species is often grown for its unusual wing-like phyllodes. It requires good drainage and occasional pruning to remove dead wood. It will withstand temperatures down to −7 °C.
Clay wattle grows in clay and gravelly soils in woodland, shrubland and mallee from near Narrogin, south to near Manypeaks and east to Israelite Bay in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, 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 glaucoptera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
