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Hovea graniticola

Hovea graniticola
Photo: jayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hovea graniticola is a small shrub of eastern Australian forest, reaching about 2.5 m, known for mauve pea-like flowers in late winter to early spring. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so it suits a sunny, well-drained native garden on poor soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, granitic-derived soils.
Temperature
Suited to mild to warm temperate and subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hovea graniticola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with its branchlets covered with curly brownish to grey hairs, narrowly oblong to almost linear leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve, pea-like flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in forest on soil derived from granite, from south-east Queensland to near Tamworth in New South Wales.

Other Hovea plants

Hovea acanthoclada · Pointed Leaved Hovea · Hovea angustissima · Hovea apiculata · Hovea arnhemica · Mountain Hovea · Holly Leaved Hovea · Hovea clavata · Hovea corrickiae · Hovea cymbiformis · Hovea densivellosa · Tree Hovea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hovea graniticola 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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