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Psoralea swartbergensis
Psoralea swartbergensis is a small spreading shrublet in the pea family, endemic to the Swartberg mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa, and known from only six locations. It is grown only rarely, so the key to growing it is to treat it like a small fynbos shrub with good drainage and summer dryness.
Psoralea swartbergensis is a small spreading shrub assigned to the Pea family. All green parts are covered in hairs. It has many slender stems that are woody at their base, alternately set clover-like leaves and heads consisting of 6–15 mauve to purple, pea-like flowers on long peduncles in the axils of the leaves. This species is an endemic of the Swartberg mountains in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It mostly flowers in November and December.
Psoralea swartbergensis is considered a near-threatened species because it is known from six locations only and may suffer from competition by invasive plants. Here it grows on sandstone slopes along seeps and on the bank of streamlets in a vegetation type called Sandstone Fynbos.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psoralea swartbergensis 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.
