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Daviesia alternifolia is a dense, spreading shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing to about 35 cm with orange and red pea flowers. It is grown mainly as a garden shrub in mild climates and needs well-drained conditions.
Daviesia alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with scattered, egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and orange and red flowers with a greenish-yellow centre.
This species of pea mainly grows in open forest on flats, hillsides and swamps mainly in the Stirling Range, but also near Denmark and Cheyne Beach in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.
Daviesia abnormis · Sandplain Bitter Pea · Daviesia alata · 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 alternifolia 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.
