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Chorizema humile

Chorizema humile
Photo: G. Flowers, CC BY 3.0 au

Chorizema humile is a low, sprawling Western Australian shrub in the pea family, grown mainly for its yellow and reddish-brown flowers. It is a native species and is used in some native and drought-tolerant plantings; it is not a common houseplant.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy loam or sandy clay; avoid waterlogged soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Austin, Irwin)
Climate
subtropical

About

Chorizema humile is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a sprawling, prostrate or low-lying shrub with egg-shaped or wedge-shaped leaves and yellow and reddish-brown flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows on plains in sandy clay or loam in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Chorizema plants

Needle Leaved Chorizema · Chorizema carinatum · Chorizema circinale · Australian Flame Pea · Chorizema cytisoides · Yellow Eyed Flame Pea · Chorizema diversifolium · Chorizema genistoides · Orange Flame Pea · Holly Flame Pea · Chorizema nanum · Chorizema nervosum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizema humile 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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