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Acacia ingrata

Acacia ingrata
Photo: C.M.H. Lapre, CC BY 3.0

Acacia ingrata is a small, spreading wattle shrub from southern Western Australia, usually 15–50 cm tall, grown mainly as an ornamental or for native gardens. It is a species, not a genus, and grows best in lean, well-drained soil in full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly lean soil; avoid rich or waterlogged ground.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; frost tolerance is limited and young plants need protection from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia ingrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is diffuse shrub with many branches, sessile, linear, triangular or narrowly oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured to white heads of flowers and thinly leathery, pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in often rocky or gravelly lateritic clay-loam and sandy soils in mallee scrub or heath mainly between Middle Mount Barren and Young River in the Esperance Plains, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of southern 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 ingrata 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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