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Jacksonia rhadinoclada

Jacksonia rhadinoclada is a small, spreading to prostrate shrub from inland Western Australia, with leafless-looking green branches and yellow-orange and red pea flowers. It is a dryland native best grown in full sun and very well-drained soil, and is rarely cultivated.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or sandy loam, very well drained; tolerates poor, dry soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild winters; frost tolerance not documented in sources.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia rhadinoclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate, delicate shrub with many dull green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed phylloclades, the leaves reduced to black, egg-shaped scales, yellow-orange and red flowers, and woody, densely hairy, elliptic pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows on sand or brown clay-loam in shrubland or woodland in inland areas of Western Australia between Pindar and Bencubbin in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of 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 rhadinoclada 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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