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Jacksonia horrida is a spiny, bushy shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly in dry, sandy gardens. It is a leafless-looking plant whose green stems do the work of leaves, so it needs free drainage and full sun.
Jacksonia horrida is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading to prostrate, bushy shrub with greyish-green branches ending in short, flattened, sharply-pointed side branches, the leaves reduced to scales and the flowers scattered and yellow-orange with red markings.
This species of Jacksonia grows in shrubland or woodland, often in winter-wet areas or on coastal dunes, between Lake Clifton and West Cape Howe in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
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 horrida 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.
