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Acacia sericocarpa

Acacia sericocarpa
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia sericocarpa is a spreading, rounded wattle shrub from south-western Australia, usually 0.4 to 2 m tall, with phyllodes rather than true leaves and yellow flowers in late winter to spring. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant native suited to dry, open gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained loamy or sandy soil; tolerates sandy-clay soils typical of its native habitat.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range; suited to subtropical and Mediterranean-type climates, with frost tolerance varying by provenance.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia sericocarpa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to south western Australia.

Where it grows

It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on flats growing in loamy or sandy-clay soils. The distribution of the shrub extends from Wyalkathem in the north down to around Corrigin and Beverly in the south to around Queen Victoria Rock in the east usually as a part of open Eucalyptus woodland or mallee woodland communities or shrublands of Melaleuca uncinata and species of Casuarina.

Other Acacia plants

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 sericocarpa 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.

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