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Jacksonia calcicola

Jacksonia calcicola
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia calcicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate spreading or erect, prickly shrub with short, curved backwards and sharply pointed end branches, yellow-orange flowers with red markings, and woody, hairy pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in coastal shrubland on limestone between Eurardy Station and the coastal suburbs of Perth in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of Western Australia.

Other Jacksonia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia calcicola 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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