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Holly Pea

Jacksonia floribunda

Holly Pea
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia floribunda, commonly known as holly pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate, low-lying, erect or upright shrub with egg-shaped, elliptic or oblong phylloclades with sharply-pointed lobes, leaves reduced to scales and yellow-orange flowers with red markings in long, dense clusters, with scale leaves at the base.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in shrubland or woodland in deep sand over Laterite and is widespread from north of Geraldton to south of Perth and inland as far as Corrigin in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Jacksonia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia floribunda 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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