Acacia Ligulata - Sandhill Wattle Tubestock | Native Tree Seedling

Acacia ligulata – Sandhill Wattle

Description:
A hardy Australian native shrub with spreading, often rounded growth and distinctive broad, grey-green phyllodes. Bright yellow, ball-shaped flower clusters appear mainly through winter and spring, providing valuable nectar for bees and other pollinators. Well adapted to arid and semi-arid conditions, it is useful for wildlife habitat, screening, wind protection, revegetation, erosion control, and stabilising sandy soils.

🌳 Height:
1–4 m

🌿 Width:
2–5 m spread

🔧 Uses:

• Bee forage and pollinator habitat

• Wildlife shelter and habitat

• Screening and low windbreaks

• Sandy soil stabilisation

• Revegetation and restoration

• Erosion and dune control

• Arid and low-maintenance landscaping

• Nitrogen fixation and soil improvement

🌱 Ideal growing conditions:

• Well-drained sandy, gravelly, or loamy soils

• Full sun

• Low to moderately fertile soils

• Dry or semi-arid conditions

💪 Tolerates:

• Poor and nutrient-poor soils

• Drought and extended dry periods

• Heat

• Strong wind and exposed conditions

• Sandy and gravelly soils

• Arid and semi-arid conditions

• Light frost

• Some coastal exposure

💧 Drought hardy:
Very high — highly drought tolerant once established and well suited to dry conditions

❄️ Frost tolerant:
Moderate

🧂 Salt tolerant:
Moderate