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Pultenaea elachista is a small, spindly native shrub from southern Australia, growing 30–50 cm tall with yellow and red-orange pea flowers from July to December. It is grown mainly in native and dry-climate gardens and needs sun, good drainage, and little water once established.
Pultenaea elachista is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with hairy foliage, oblong to egg-shaped leaves with a pointed tip, and yellow flowers with red or orange markings.
Pultenaea elachista grows on plains in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Hampton and Mallee biogeographic regions of southern Western Australia and in the Nullarbor, Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island regions of South Australia.
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