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Collie Jacksonia

Jacksonia velveta

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia velveta is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west Western Australia. It is an erect, upright, sometimes sprawling shrub with greyish-green branches, the end branches phylloclades, the leaves broadly egg-shaped and toothed but that fall off as they mature, flowers yellow-orange with red marking arranged singly at the base of the phylloclades, and woody, flattened elliptic pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in jarra forest in sand over laterite in scattered locaions south of Muja Power Station, Dardadine, west of Woodanilling and west of Wagin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest 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 velveta 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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