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Tephrosia clementii

Tephrosia clementii is a low, spreading annual pea-family plant native to the arid north-west of Western Australia, bearing orange or red flowers in summer. It is a wild desert species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, so care advice is based on its dry-shrubland habitat.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it is adapted to a short wet season and dry rest.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
Warm conditions suited to its arid native range; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Tephrosia clementii is a plant species, endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an annual with a prostrate, spreading habit, growing to between 0.1 and 0.25 metres high. Orange or red flowers are produced between January and March in the species' native range.

The species was first formally described by S.A.Skan in 1903 in Icones Plantarum, from a collection by Emile Clement between the Ashburton and Yule Rivers.

Other Tephrosia plants

Tephrosia arenicola · White hoarypea · Scurf hoarypea · Tephrosia elongata · Florida hoarypea · Pink Tephrosia · Sprawling hoarypea · Sandhill Tippetoes · Tephrosia odorata · Multibloom hoarypea · Pondo Poison Pea · Fishpoison

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tephrosia clementii 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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