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Tephrosia arenicola is a small, hairy desert shrub from northern Western Australia, growing to about 50 cm from several stems at the base. It is a wild species of dry sandy country and is not a commonly grown garden plant.
Tephrosia arenicola is a plant in the Fabaceae family, native to the north of Western Australia. The species has no synonyms.
It is found in the IBRA regions of the Central Kimberley, the Gascoyne, the Gibson Desert, the Great Sandy Desert, the Little Sandy Desert, and the Pilbara, growing on sandplains, sand ridges, and drainage lines, on red sand, sandy gravel, and alluvium.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tephrosia arenicola 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.
