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Acacia nigripilosa is a small shrub from southwestern Western Australia, growing 0.5 to 2 metres tall with yellow flowers from July to September. It needs full sun and well-drained sandy soil, and is best suited to Mediterranean-type or dry subtropical climates.
Acacia nigripilosa is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to Western Australia.
It is native to an area in the Mid West, Goldfields and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils around laterite. It is found as far north as around Yuna south to around Goomalling and east out to Mount Holland where it is found in scrubland or open woodland communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia nigripilosa 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.
