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Tephrosia elongata is a perennial subshrub or shrub in the pea family, native to seasonally dry woodland and grassland from Tanzania to northern and eastern South Africa. It is rarely grown in gardens, and care is best matched to its dry, sunny native conditions.
Tephrosia elongata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Africa south of the equator. It occurs from northern and eastern South Africa to the highlands of Malawi and Tanzania.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tephrosia elongata 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.
