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Daviesia sejugata

Daviesia sejugata
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Daviesia sejugata is a straggling, spiny Australian shrub in the pea family, native to southern South Australia and northern and eastern Tasmania, where it grows in mallee-heath and heathy forest. It is a bitter-pea grown mainly as a native garden or wildlife plant, and it suits well-drained, sunny sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry spells once mature.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; poor soils are fine.
Temperature
Hardy to cool temperate conditions; protect from severe frost and prolonged heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. South Australia, N. & E. Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia sejugata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a straggling, mostly glabrous shrub with spiny, ridged branchlets, scattered, sharply-pointed, narrowly elliptic phyllodes, and yellow, maroon, orange and dark purple flowers.

Where it grows

This bitter-pea grows in mallee-heath on the southern Yorke Peninsula and on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. In northern and eastern Tasmania and on King Island it is found in heathy 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 sejugata 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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