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Leafless Bitter Pea

Daviesia brevifolia

Leafless Bitter Pea
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0

Daviesia brevifolia, leafless bitter-pea, is a rigid, broom-like shrub up to about 1 m tall, native to southern Australia, with reduced cylindrical phyllodes and apricot to reddish-brown pea flowers in spring. It is a hardy native plant best grown in full sun in well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry conditions and dislikes waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil, neutral to acidic.
Temperature
Hardy to frost; suitable for temperate to subtropical climates, protect from prolonged heat and frost in very cold areas.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. South Australia to W. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia brevifolia, commonly known as leafless bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southern continental Australia. It is a broom-like shrub with short, cylindrical phyllodes and apricot to reddish-brown flowers.

Where it grows

Leafless bitter-pea grows in forest and woodland and heath in western Victoria and the south-east of South Australia.

Other Daviesia plants

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 arthropoda

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia brevifolia 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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