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Oxylobium cordifolium

Oxylobium cordifolium
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0

Oxylobium cordifolium, the heart-leaved shaggy pea, is a small, spreading, prostrate shrub from New South Wales with heart-shaped leaves and orange-red pea flowers. It grows best in damp, sandy, well-drained soil in full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during establishment, then water sparingly once established.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining, acidic to neutral soil; add grit if potting.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Oxylobium cordifolium, commonly known as the heart-leaved shaggy pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, prostrate shrub with long, wiry branches, heart-shaped leaves and orange-red flowers.

Where it grows

Heart-leaved shaggy pea grows on damp, sandy soils in heath and coastal headlands south of Sydney, Tumut and Conjola districts.

Other Oxylobium plants

Mountain Mirbelia · Tall Shaggy Pea · Common Shaggy Pea · Oxylobium pulteneae · Tree Shaggy Pea · Shaggy Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxylobium cordifolium 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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