Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia ulicifolia
Common name
Prickly Moses, Juniper wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall or sprawling. Sharp-pointed 'leaves'. Bark smooth. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairy to hairless, often rough. 'Leaves' scattered, often crowded, sometimes almost in whorls, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, more or less rigid, 4-angled to cylindrical or more or less flat, surfaces hairless, gradually tapering to a sharp point. Stipules at the bases of the leaves 1-2 mm long, tapering to a fine point. Flower heads yellow to nearly white, usually cream, globular, 15-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-10 mm in diameter. Flower stalks 7-20 mm long. Flowers Autumn to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Intergrades with Acacia brownii and Acacia echinula.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~ulicifolia (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=u&id=20562&o=1
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