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Feather Bush Pea

Pultenaea penna

Feather Bush Pea
Photo: Rogier de Kok, CC BY 3.0 au

Feather bush-pea is a rigid, spreading native shrub of south-eastern Australia with needle-like leaves and yellow-and-red pea flowers in late spring. It suits open, sunny, well-drained native gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to warm temperate conditions; frost hardy in most mild climates.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia to Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea penna, commonly known as feather bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rigid, spreading shrub with linear, needle-shaped leaves and yellow and red, pea-like flowers.

Where it grows

Feather bush-pea grows in heathy woodland in the Little Desert National Park in Victoria and in the south-east of South 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 penna 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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