Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Acacia subracemosa

Acacia subracemosa
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia subracemosa, western karri wattle, is a spreading wattle shrub from south western Western Australia that grows in sandy, limestone-influenced soils. It is rarely grown outside its native region, and its main requirement is good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, ideally with some lime.
Temperature
Suited to mild, subtropical to Mediterranean conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia subracemosa, also known as western karri wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Pulchellae that is endemic to a small area of south western Australia

Where it grows

It is native to an area in the South West region of Western Australia where it is found growing in sandy soils over and around limestone. The range of the plant extends from near Witchcliffe in the north and around Augusta with the bulk of the population located to the west of Karridale usually as a part of Eucalyptus diversicolor (karri) forest communities.

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 subracemosa 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…