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Daviesia localis

Daviesia localis
Photo: Jean and Fred, CC BY 2.0

Daviesia localis is a spiny, erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, known from only a single population near Bindoon, where it grows in forest. It is grown mainly by specialist native plant collectors rather than commonly in gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil with low phosphorus, as is typical of Western Australian native plants.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from severe frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Darling)
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia localis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with spine-tipped branchlets, scattered, spreading, curved, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed phyllodes and orange-yellow and red flowers with a v-shaped central mark.

Where it grows

This daviesia grows is only known from a single population in the Bindoon area where it grows in forest.

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 localis 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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