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Pultenaea sericea
Chaffy bush-pea is a small, straggling native shrub of south-eastern Australia, usually 20–30 cm tall, with yellow and red-to-purple pea flowers in spring. It is grown as a low ornamental for native and coastal heathland gardens and needs open, well-drained, lightly fertile conditions.
Pultenaea sericea, commonly known as chaffy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, straggling shrub with hairy branches, elliptic to linear leaves, and yellow and red to purple, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea sericea mainly grows in coastal heathland and seasonally wet areas east of Melbourne. It also occurs in north-eastern Tasmania and there is a single record from the Nadgee Nature Reserve in New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea sericea 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.
