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Acacia leiophylla is a wattle shrub or small tree, up to about 4 m, native to coastal South Australia, with bright yellow flower heads in late winter and spring. It needs full sun and free-draining sandy soil.
Acacia leiophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of South Australia. It is a shrub or tree with sickle-shaped, glabrous, thinly leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods raised over the seeds.
This species of wattle occurs along the south coast of South Australia from around Coffin Bay to the Eyre Peninsula and Mount Gambier where it grows in red, shallow, porous loamy limy to leached sands in open scrub with mallee eucalypts.
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 leiophylla 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.
