Family - Fabaceae
Common name - Dogwood
Flowers and fruit - Flowers are orange-yellow with red centres on terminal racemes in upper axils. The calyx is 5-lobed reddish-brown and covered with silky hairs. The seed pod is oblong-elliptic, 6 to 12mm long, flattened, reddish-brown and covered in long whitish hairs. Flowering Oct to Nov.
Leaves and stems- Leafless (leaves usually reduced to scales). Angular branches are minutely downy giving them a grey appearance.
Habit and habitat - A tall leafless shrub generally to 3m but can grow much taller. Branches are often drooping and bear a profusion of flowers, making Jacksonia scoparia very showy and noticeable. It grows on low-nutrient gravel or sandy soils in exposed positions and hillsides and ridges.
|Leafless branches of Jacksonia scoparia (Dogwood)|
|Reddish-brown seed pods of Jacksonia scoparia covered in silky hairs|
|Drooping habit of Jacksonia scoparia on roadside|
|'Fascination' growing on Jacksonia scoparia|
A 'fascination' is an abnormal growth in which the growing tip becomes elongated, flattened, ribbon-like, crested or elaborately contorted. More information here.