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Daviesia arthropoda is a small, glabrous desert shrub of Central Australia that grows on sand dunes, with yellow and red pea flowers from April to August. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water.
Daviesia arthropoda is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Central Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with widely spreading branches, sharply-pointed, narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with faint red markings.
This species of pea grows on sand dunes with species of spinifex, such as Triodia basedowii, and Acacia species and is widespread and scattered in Central Australia from the Little Sandy Desert in Western Australia, through the Northern Territory and South Australia to western Queensland.
Daviesia abnormis · Sandplain Bitter Pea · Daviesia alata · Daviesia alternifolia · Daviesia anceps · Daviesia angulata · Dryland Bitter Pea · Daviesia apiculata · Golden Pea Tree · Sandhill Bitter Pea · Daviesia argillacea · Daviesia articulata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia arthropoda 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.
