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Common Hovea

Hovea trisperma

Common Hovea
Photo: Ilena from Perth, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hovea trisperma, commonly known as common hovea, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a small straggling shrub with purple-blue flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Where it grows

Common hovea grows in sandy and clay soils in heath, woodlands and mallee from Perth, south to Busselton, and to the south-west near Albany, and Esperance.

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 trisperma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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