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Acacia quornensis
Quorn wattle (Acacia quornensis) is a bushy, spreading shrub of the pea family, native to a small area of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, where it grows on rocky slopes and in gullies. It is locally common but rare overall, and is mainly a plant for dry, well-drained native gardens.
Acacia quornensis, commonly known as Quorn wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae native to southern Australia.
It is endemic to a small area in the Flinders Range of South Australia from Quorn to Hawker where it is found on the lower slopes of the range and in rocky gullies growing in calcareous loamy soils as a part of low woodland communities dominated by Callitris glaucophylla. It is locally common but considered rare in South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia quornensis 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.
