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Acacia laccata is an erect, spindly wattle shrub of northern Australia, growing 2–5 m tall with yellow flower spikes from May to September. It is a dryland, sun-loving species best suited to warm, free-draining sandy soils.
Acacia laccata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with fissured, dark brown bark, narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic, glabrous phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and linear, glabrous pods slightly constricted between the seeds.
This species of wattle grows in sandy soils over sandstone or granite on plains and flats, often in woodland, in the Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions of northern Western Australia, the Davenport Murchison Ranges, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Gulf Plains, Ord Victoria Plain and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions of the Northern Territory, and far north-western Queensland, north of 23°S.
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 laccata 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.
