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Acacia leptopetala is a dense, many-stemmed wattle shrub, 1 to 3 m tall, native to south-west Western Australia, with spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers in November and December. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant shrub best grown in full sun with excellent drainage.
Acacia leptopetala is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is commonly a dense, glabrous shrub with many stems, usually narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and linear pods rounded over the seeds.
This species of wattle grows in clay, loam, sand and gravel in mallee scrub, from near Bencubbin, south to Nyabing, and east to near Ravensthorpe in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia leptopetala 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.
