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Acacia imparilis

Acacia imparilis is a small, prickly wattle shrub or subshrub, found only in the Stirling Range area of south-west Western Australia. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant plant suited to dry, free-draining sites and is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly, low-nutrient soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia (W. Stirling Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia imparilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is restricted to a small area of the south west of Western Australia. It is an erect or sprawling, prickly shrub or subshrub with slightly s-shaped, narrowly oblong, egg-shaped or lance-shaped phyllodes with a hooked or beaked tip, spherical heads of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers and linear to slightly curved pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is found in, and near to the Stirling Range National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions in the south west of Western Australia from around Cranbrook to Mount Barker where it grows on rocky hills in mallee scrub.

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 imparilis 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.

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