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Jacksonia nutans

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

About

Jacksonia nutans is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, prickly shrub with yellow to greyish-green branches, sharply-pointed branchlets, leaves reduced to triangular scales, orange flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy, round or elliptic pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows on sand on sandplains and sand dunes from Geraldton to the Moore River area and east to Watheroo National Park, Moora and Wannamal in the 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 nutans 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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