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Pultenaea empetrifolia

Pultenaea empetrifolia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Pultenaea empetrifolia is a low, spreading shrub native to south-western Western Australia, grown mainly for its yellow to orange and red pea flowers in spring. It needs full sun, good drainage and little water once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; poor, acidic soil suits it well.
Temperature
Mild to warm conditions suit it; it tolerates light frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Pultenaea empetrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spindly, prostrate or spreading shrub with down-curved, cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow to orange and red flowers.

Where it grows

This pultenaea is widespread in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Pultenaea plants

Bush Pea · Bristly Bush Pea · Pultenaea adunca · Grafton Bush Pea · Tall Bush Pea · Pultenaea arida · Bearded Bush Pea · Pultenaea aspalathoides · Budawang Bush Pea · Pultenaea barbata · Bentham's Bush Pea · Blakely's Bush Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea empetrifolia 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.

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