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Williamson's Bush Pea

Pultenaea williamsoniana

Also called Williamsons Bush Pea

Williamson's Bush Pea
Photo: Russell Best, CC BY 4.0

Williamson's Bush Pea is a slender, erect shrub up to about 3 m tall, native to a small area of the northern Grampians in Victoria, Australia. It is rarely cultivated, so growing it is mainly a matter of reproducing its native rocky, well-drained heathland conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging, as it is adapted to dry native slopes.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty, low-fertility soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to mild temperatures; protect from prolonged frost and heat above 35 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea williamsoniana, commonly known as Williamson's bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria, Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with its stems covered with white hairs, and has cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers arranged in clusters on the ends of short side branches.

Where it grows

Williamson's bush-pea grows on rocky slopes in heathy understorey in the northern Grampians.

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 williamsoniana 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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