Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Temora and Griffith, NSW

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Whipstick State Park, Vic

Flowering shrub. Photo in Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Temora, NSW

Common Name

Rough Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub 50cm-2m tall.  ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 1-4cm long, 2-7mm wide, flat, sparsely hairy, rough to the touch, sticky, edges smooth, with a sharp point.  Flower heads yellow, spherical, single, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 353

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~aspera

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=a&id=20554&o=1