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Broom Bitter Pea

Daviesia genistifolia

Broom Bitter Pea
Photo: Betty and Don Wood, CC BY 3.0 au

Broom bitter-pea is a native Australian shrub in the pea family, growing 0.6 to 2 m tall with slender needle-like phyllodes and yellow to deep red pea flowers in spring. It suits dry, open, well-drained sites, and is mainly grown in native or drought-tolerant gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm temperatures and light frost; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia genistifolia, commonly known as broom bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a glabrous, low to open shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow or orange-yellow, deep red and maroon flowers.

Where it grows

Broom bitter-pea grows in dry forests and is widespread in south-eastern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales to eastern Victoria and the Flinders Ranges in 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 genistifolia 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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