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Acacia iteaphylla
Flinders Ranges Wattle is a fast-growing, drought-tolerant shrub from South Australia, grown for its soft foliage and yellow flower heads in autumn and winter. It is a weed in parts of southern Australia, so check local rules before planting.
Acacia iteaphylla, commonly known as Flinders Range wattle, Port Lincoln wattle, winter wattle or willow-leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia, but has become naturalised as an environmental weed outside of its natural range. It is a bushy, spreading shrub with narrowly to broadly linear phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow to lemon yellow flowers and thinly leathery, glabrous pods.
Acacia iteaphylla is sold commercially for cultivation in seedling and in seed form. It can take full sun or partial shade, can grow in saline soils and is frost tolerant and drought tolerant once established. Used in gardens as an ornamental screen or as a low windbreak, as it is fast growing and has attractive foliage. The best known cultivar of A. iteaphylla is a low-growing form called Acacia "Parsons Cascade". Seeds need to be scarified or treated with boiling water prior to planting.
This species of wattle is native to the Flinders Range, Gawler Range and Eyre Peninsula of South Australia where it grows among rocky outcrops on hillsides or along rocky creek creeks. It is a woody weed in southern Australia, escaping from gardens and landscape plantings and is naturalised in some parts of New South Wales, coastal and sub-coastal districts of south-western Western Australia and central and western parts of Victoria.
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 iteaphylla 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.
