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Jacksonia racemosa

Jacksonia racemosa
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Jacksonia racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to prostrate, spindly shrub with greyish-green branches, with leaves reduced to scales leaves, yellow flowers with red markings and scattered along the branches, and woody, hairy pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows on lateritic ridges or flats in heathland or woodland from east of Perth to the Stirling Ranges and east of Munglinup to Esperance in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee 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 racemosa 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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