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Jacksonia rhadinoclona

Jacksonia rhadinoclona
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Jacksonia rhadinoclona, known as Miles dogwood, is a spindly, leafless-looking shrub from inland eastern Australia that grows in open woodland on sandy soils over sandstone. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant native best grown in full sun with excellent drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts; protect from prolonged frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia rhadinoclona, commonly known as Miles dogwood, dwarf dogwood or western dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect to spreading, spindly shrub with greyish-green branches, the leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales pressed against the surface, yellow-orange flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy, oval pods.

Where it grows

Miles dogwood grows in open woodland on sand over sandstone from near Hughenden in central Queensland to north-east of Bourke in northern New South Wales.

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 rhadinoclona 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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