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Hovea impressinerva
Hovea impressinerva is a shrub or small tree from subtropical south-eastern Australia, growing up to about 4 m, with narrow leaves and mauve pea-like flowers. Grow it in a sunny, well-drained spot as a native garden plant; it is not a common cultivated plant.
Hovea impressinerva is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub or small tree many parts covered with dense, golden brown hairs, the leaves strap shaped to very narrowly elliptic with stipules at the base, and mauve, pea-like flowers.
This species of pea grows in forest in far south-eastern Queensland, south and south-west of Brisbane, and on Mount Warning in far north-eastern New South Wales.
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 impressinerva 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.
