Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia leucoclada subsp. leucoclada

Flowering stem and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles, near Cessnock

Shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles, near Cessnock

Common name

Northern silver wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and open areas. Western Slopes. Tablelands north of the Kings Highway. Rarely in the ranges. Naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 13 m tall. Bark smooth, later rough and fissured to corrugated. Branchlets slightly angled to cylindrical and ridged, often more or less glaucous, hairy or hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 2-9.5 cm long, hairy to hairless, 1 gland on the leaf stalk below the basal pair of pinnae (or absent); jugary glands absent or irregularly present, interjugary glands usually irregularly present. Mostly 10-36 pinnae each 1.5-5.5 cm long, each with 22-90 leaflets 0.1-0.6 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, green or silvery, hairy or hairless. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-7 mm in diameter, 20-26 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in many-flowered clusters. Flowering: mainly July–October.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~leucoclada (accessed 27 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photo, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=l&id=23718&o=1