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Jacksonia pungens is a small, rounded, spiny-tipped shrub from south-west Western Australia, known from remnant populations in tall shrubland on sandy soil or laterite. It is a species rarely grown in gardens, so the care notes below are general guidance for Jacksonia in cultivation.
Jacksonia pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, rounded, domed shrub with greyish-green branches, scattered, sharply-pointed end branches, leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales, orange-red flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy, elliptic pods.
This species of Jacksonia grows in tall shrubland on sandy soil or laterite and is only known from remnant populations south of Marchagee in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia pungens 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.
