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Daviesia umbonata

Daviesia umbonata
Photo: Tim Hammer, CC BY 4.0

Daviesia umbonata is a bushy, openly branched shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown for its yellow and red pea flowers in winter. It is a species of kwongan heathland, so it suits free-draining soil and dry, sunny conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low soil.
Temperature
Mild to warm temperatures; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia umbonata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, openly-branched shrub with narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, sharply pointed phyllodes and yellow and red flowers.

Where it grows

This daviesia grows in kwongan north from the Wongan Hills-Manmanning area in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest bioregions 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 umbonata 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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