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Mirbelia ferricola is a small erect Australian shrub from the pea family, with leaves reduced to tiny scales and red and yellow pea-type flowers. It is native to dry lateritic rocky soils in Western Australia and is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is general.
Mirbelia ferricola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leaves reduced to small scales, and red and yellow flowers arranged in racemes at the ends of the branches.
This mirbelia grows on rocky lateritic soils in woodland and shrubland in banded iron formations in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of south-western, Western Australia.
Mirbelia aotoides · Mirbelia balsiformis · Bauer's Merbelia · Mirbelia confertiflora · Mirbelia corallina · Mirbelia densiflora · Mirbelia depressa · Holly Leaved Mirbelia · Purple Mirbelia · Mirbelia granitica · Mirbelia longifolia · Mirbelia microphylla
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirbelia ferricola 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.
