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Daviesia microcarpa

Daviesia microcarpa, the Norseman pea, is a small sprawling shrub from inland Western Australia with needle-like phyllodes and orange and pinkish-red pea flowers. It is rare in the wild and rarely grown, so care advice is general for Australian dryland shrubs.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia (Coolgardie)
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia microcarpa, commonly known as Norseman pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to two small areas of inland Western Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with tangled stems and crowded, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and orange and pinkish-red flowers.

Where it grows

This daviesia grows in sandy soil in woodland and is known from two disjunct populations, near Norseman where 13 plants were recorded in March 2010, and Southern Cross where there were 39 plants, in the Coolgardie biogeographic region of inland Western 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 microcarpa 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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