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Pultenaea aristata
Bearded bush-pea is a small, erect, spiny-looking shrub from the pea family, native to woodland and heath on sandstone around Sydney and Wollongong in New South Wales. It is grown for its yellow and red pea flowers and does best in free-draining, sandy, acidic soil in full sun.
Pultenaea aristata, commonly known as bearded bush-pea or prickly bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, erect shrub with linear to narrow elliptic, sharp-tipped leaves, and yellow and red flowers.
Bearded bush-pea grows in woodland and heath on sandstone, from the southern suburbs of Sydney to Mount Keira near Wollongong.
Bush Pea · Bristly Bush Pea · Pultenaea adunca · Grafton Bush Pea · Tall Bush Pea · Pultenaea arida · Pultenaea aspalathoides · Budawang Bush Pea · Pultenaea barbata · Bentham's Bush Pea · Blakely's Bush Pea · Inland Bush Pea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea aristata 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.
