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Daviesia tortuosa

Daviesia tortuosa
Photo: Michael Crisp, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia tortuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous shrub with tangled, zigzagging branchlets, sharply-pointed, narrowly elliptic phyllodes, and yellow flowers with faint orange markings.

Where it grows

This daviesia grows in kwongan heath roughly between Kulin, Dumbleyung and Lake Grace in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western 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 tortuosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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