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Daviesia elongata

Daviesia elongata
Photo: Michael Crisp, CC BY 3.0 au

Daviesia elongata is a spreading, sprawling shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its yellow-orange and maroon pea flowers. It is a niche species, best treated as a sun-loving, well-drained shrub suited to Mediterranean-type gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water during establishment, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly, low-fertility soil.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Darling)
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia elongata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, spreading or sprawling shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear phyllodes and yellow-orange and maroon flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in the heathy understorey of forest near Carbunup and Busselton.

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 elongata 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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