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Gompholobium aspalathoides

Gompholobium aspalathoides
Photo: Lock the Gate Alliance, CC BY 2.0

Gompholobium aspalathoides is an erect, mostly hairless Australian shrub with yellow pea-like flowers, native to heath and woodland in eastern Australia. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so care is best matched to its heath and woodland conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil, acidic to neutral.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; frost tolerance is limited, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Gompholobium aspalathoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, more or less glabrous shrub with trifoliate leaves with linear to narrow elliptic leaflets, and yellow pea-like flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in heath, woodland and forest and is widespread in inland areas from near Bundaberg in Queensland to near Moruya in New South Wales.

Other Gompholobium plants

Gompholobium aristatum · Gompholobium baxteri · Gompholobium burtonioides · Gompholobium capitatum · Gompholobium cinereum · Gompholobium confertum · Gompholobium cyaninum · Dwarf Wedge Pea · Gompholobium foliolosum · Gompholobium gairdnerianum · Dainty Wedge Pea · Gompholobium glutinosum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gompholobium aspalathoides 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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