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Chorizema aciculare
Needle-leaved chorizema is a small, erect or spreading West Australian shrub with sharp-pointed leaves and pink, orange or yellow pea flowers. It needs full sun and free-draining soil, and it suits a sunny, dry garden.
Chorizema aciculare, commonly known as needle-leaved chorizema, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with sharply-pointed leaves, the flower colour depending on subspecies.
Chorizema aciculare mostly grows in woodland or coastal kwongan on granite outcrops, undulating plains, ridges or on coastal dunes and is widespread from near Geraldton to Israelite Bay in the south-west of Western Australia.
Chorizema carinatum · Chorizema circinale · Australian Flame Pea · Chorizema cytisoides · Yellow Eyed Flame Pea · Chorizema diversifolium · Chorizema genistoides · Orange Flame Pea · Chorizema humile · Holly Flame Pea · Chorizema nanum · Chorizema nervosum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizema aciculare 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.
