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Box Leaf Bitter Pea

Daviesia buxifolia

Box Leaf Bitter Pea
Photo: Jackie Miles, CC BY 3.0 au

Box-leaf bitter-pea is an open, often weeping shrub native to south-eastern Australia, grown for its yellow and maroon pea flowers. It is adapted to poor or clay soils and is best grown in a well-drained, sunny spot.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional watering; it tolerates dry spells once established.
Soil
Well-drained, poor or clay-based soil; avoid waterlogging.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to mild temperatures; hardy to light frost, with protection advised in severe cold.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia buxifolia, commonly known as box-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an open shrub with egg-shaped to round phyllodes and yellow or yellowish-orange and maroon-brown flowers.

Where it grows

Box-leaf bitter-pea grows in poor or clay soils in forest, usually in mountainous terrain, south from the Tuross River in far south-eastern New South Wales to eastern Victoria.

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 buxifolia 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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