Trailing Acacia
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Acacia redolens
Trailing Acacia Photo Description: This ground cover is low growing and wide spreading. Trailing Acacia grows to 18 - 24 inches tall and can spread to 15 feet across. The leathery leaves are actually the modified petiole of a true leaf and are dark, olive green in color. Leaves remain on the plant through cold or drought. In the spring, Trailing Acacia is adorned with small, yellow flowers.

Maintenance: Although Trailing Acacia is quite drought tolerant, it also seems to tolerate periodic flooding, and a number of landscape architects have used it successfully in retention basins. It does require regular irrigation during the hot summer months. Place Trailing Acacia in full sun, as it tends to get rangy in the shade.