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Gorse Bitter Pea

Daviesia ulicifolia

Gorse Bitter Pea
Photo: Chris Clarke, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
SE. Queensland to SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia ulicifolia, commonly known as gorse bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a rigid, openly-branched shrub with sharply-pointed, narrow elliptic, narrow egg-shaped, rarely egg-shaped phyllodes and usually orange-yellow and dark red flowers.

Where it grows

Gorse bitter-pea is widely distributed in Australia, where it grows in open forest in all six states, but not the Northern Territory.

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 ulicifolia 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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