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Acacia nigricans is a small wattle shrub native to the south coast of Western Australia, growing on coastal dunes and rocky granite hills in sandy soils. It is grown mainly for its yellow winter and spring flowers and suits dry, well-drained sunny sites.
Acacia nigricans is a species of wattle which is endemic to an area on the south coast of Western Australia.
It is often situated on coastal sand dunes, on granite hills and among rocks growing in grey or white sandy soils along the south coast of Western Australia in the Goldfields-Esperance regions. The bulk of the population extends from around Barker Inlet, about 50 km (31 mi) west of Esperance in the west out to around Israelite Bay in the east and extending inland to near Howick Hill, and is also found on several islands in the Recherche Archipelago usually as a part of heath and scrub communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia nigricans 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.
