Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Daviesia striata

Daviesia striata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Daviesia striata is a rigid, open shrub from the south coast of Western Australia, growing up to about 1.2 m with yellow and red pea flowers. It is a little-known species; grow it in well-drained, sandy soil in full sun, similar to its coastal heath habitat.

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

About

Daviesia striata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a rigid, glabrous shrub with erect branchlets, crowded, vertically compressed, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.

Where it grows

This daviesia usually grows in coastal heath and is found in the south of Western Australia between Bremer Bay and East Mount Barren in the Esperance Plains biogeographic region.

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 striata 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…