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Jacksonia ramosissima

Jacksonia ramosissima
Photo: Jane Canaway, CC BY 4.0

Jacksonia ramosissima is a small, densely branched, soft shrub from inland northern Queensland, grown mainly for its yellow-orange pea flowers and its leafless green branches. It is a native Australian species seen in gardens mostly on well-drained, dry sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water well until established, then rely mostly on rainfall and water sparingly in dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained sandy loam; tolerates poor, gravelly or lateritic soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry inland summers and mild frosts; protect from prolonged hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia ramosissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect, densely-branching, soft shrub with leaves reduced to egg-shaped, greyish scales, yellow-orange flowers densely arranged near the ends of branches, and woody, elliptical fruit densely covered with white hairs.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in woodland in sandy loam over sandstone or laterite in northern inland Queensland.

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 ramosissima 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.

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