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Acacia intricata is a dense, compact, prickly wattle shrub from south-western Western Australia, usually 15 to 50 cm tall. It is a drought-tolerant plant of dry woodland and mallee country, grown mainly for its bright golden flower heads.
Acacia intricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, compact, intricate shrub with sessile, egg-shaped, rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden yellow flowers and curved to coiled pods.
This species of wattle grows in loam, clay and gravelly sand in woodland and mallee shrubland from Bencubbin and Jaurdi Station (north of Yellowdine) and south to Lake Grace and Lake King in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions in 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 intricata 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.
