Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia dawsonii
Common name
Poverty wattle, Mitta wattle, Dawson's wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Western Slopes, ACT, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Branchlets with prominent resinous ribs, hairy with minute hairs. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 3.5-12 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, hairless, more or less resinous, with up to about 10 longitudinal veins (1 or 2 being more prominent), tips somewhat pointed with a mucro. 1 marginal gland near the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-10 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 2-5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 2-9 flower heads. Flowers Winter to early Summer. Pods linear, shiny.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Regarded as indigenous and naturalised in the ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~dawsonii (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=d&id=23624&o=1
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