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Bossiaea flexuosa is a compact, leafless-looking Australian shrub of the pea family, native to semi-arid Western Australia. It is a species grown mainly in native and dry-climate gardens, where good drainage and full sun are the keys to success.
Bossiaea flexuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a compact shrub with slightly flattened, zigzag branches, notched, more or less leafless cladodes, and golden yellow and red or pinkish flowers.
This bossiaea grows in deep sand in kwongan, open mallee or woodland mostly between Norseman, Hyden and Salmon Gums in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bossiaea flexuosa 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.
