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Chorizema carinatum is a small Western Australian shrub in the pea family, grown for its bright yellow flowers from October to December. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and dry-season watering once established.
Chorizema carinatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with sharply-pointed leaves and bright yellow flowers.
Chorizema carinatum grows in sand and sandy clay in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Needle Leaved Chorizema · 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 carinatum 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.
