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Sandplain Bitter Pea

Daviesia acicularis

Also called Sharp Bitter Pea

Sandplain Bitter Pea
Photo: Max Campbell, CC BY 3.0 au

Daviesia acicularis, sharp bitter-pea, is a wiry Australian shrub in the pea family, native to eastern Australia. It is grown mainly as a native garden shrub and needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or light soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia acicularis, commonly known as sharp bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, wiry shrub with tapering, linear phyllodes, and single yellow to orange and dark red flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in forest and hummock grassland from Tambo and Charleville in central Queensland to Eden and inland as far as Cowra, West Wyalong and Enngonia in New South Wales.

Other Daviesia plants

Daviesia abnormis · Daviesia alata · Daviesia alternifolia · Daviesia anceps · Daviesia angulata · Dryland Bitter Pea · Daviesia apiculata · Golden Pea Tree · Sandhill Bitter Pea · Daviesia argillacea · Daviesia arthropoda · Daviesia articulata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia acicularis 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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