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Hovea rosmarinifolia, known as mountain beauty or rosemary hovea, is a small Australian shrub up to about 1.5 m tall with mauve pea flowers from August to November. It grows best in free-draining, sandy soil in sun or light shade.
Hovea rosmarinifolia, commonly known as mountain beauty or rosemary hovea is a shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to Australia. A small shrub bearing attractive blue-purple or mauve pea flowers from August to November.
Rosemary hovea grows from Lithgow, Cowra and north to Gilgandra in New South Wales. An understory shrub growing in scrubland or sheltered gullies on poor free draining sandy soils. Also grows in scattered locations in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.
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 rosmarinifolia 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.
