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Jacksonia argentea

Jacksonia argentea
Photo: Jennifer Chappill, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia argentea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far north of Western Australia. It is an erect, silver-grey shrub with flattened, narrowly lance-shaped to narrowly elliptical cladodes or phylloclades, bright yellow flowers, and woody hairy pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in woodland close to watercourses on sand over sandstone between Sir Graham Moore Island, Drysdale River Station, King Edward River and Helby River, in the Northern Kimberley bioregion of far northern Western Australia.

Other Jacksonia plants

Jacksonia acicularis · Jacksonia aculeata · Jacksonia alata · Jacksonia angulata · Jacksonia anthoclada · Jacksonia arenicola · Jacksonia arida · Jacksonia arnhemica · Jacksonia calcicola · Jacksonia calycina · Jacksonia capitata · Jacksonia carduacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia argentea 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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