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Leptosema cervicorne is a small, tangled shrub from the arid goldfields of inland Western Australia, grown mainly for its unusual red flowers in dry, sandy, native-style gardens. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water once established.
Leptosema cervicornu is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a shrub with many tangled branches and branchlets, leaves reduced to egg-shaped scales, green flowers sometimes with a red tinge, and beaked broadly oval pods.
This species of Leptosema grows in heath with Eucalyptus species, Allocasuarina campestris, Callitris and proteaceous shrubs and is found from the Western Australian Goldfields near Menzies to Southern Cross and towards Norseman in the Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.
Leptosema aculeatum · Leptosema anomalum · Leptosema aphyllum · Leptosema bossiaeoides · Upside Down Plant · Leptosema chapmanii · Upside Down Pea Bush · Leptosema macrocarpum · Leptosema oxylobioides · Leptosema tomentosum · Leptosema uniflorum · Leptosema villosum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema cervicornu 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.
