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Rosemary Bush Pea

Pultenaea rosmarinifolia

Rosemary Bush Pea
Photo: Don and Betty Wood, CC BY 3.0

Pultenaea rosmarinifolia, the rosemary bush-pea, is an erect shrub from eastern New South Wales, grown for its yellow and red pea flowers. It is best suited to a sunny, well-drained spot and is little grown outside its native region or botanic collections.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or lightly acidic soil, as in its native heath.
Temperature
Mild to warm conditions suit it; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea rosmarinifolia, commonly known as rosemary bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with linear to elliptic leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red to purplish flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Pultenaea grows in heathland and forest on the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales, from near Newcastle to Bawley Point.

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 rosmarinifolia 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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