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Acacia kerryana

Acacia kerryana
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia kerryana is a low, dense, spreading wattle shrub from arid south-west Western Australia, growing to about 0.3 to 1 m. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant garden or xeriscape plant in well-drained, sunny sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, stony ground.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia (Coolgardie)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia kerryana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is low, dense, spreading shrub with sessile, twisted, terete phyllodes, oblong to short-cylindrical heads of light golden yellow flowers in axils, and linear, twisted, leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on undulating plains and low stony ridges in granitic loamy sands or clay sand soils in scattered locations between Kambalda, Lake Cronin and Norseman in the Coolgardie bioregion of south-western 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 kerryana 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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