Daviesia brevifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Daviesia brevifolia, photographed by T. Hammer — fig. b T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158112391

Daviesia brevifolia, photographed by spacegecko — fig. h spacegecko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125044458

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession: K000846692
Filed as: Daviesia brevifolia Lindl.
Det. by: Crisp, M.D.
Collected: Mitchell, T.L. 1838-01-01
Origin: AU
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Daviesia brevifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
South Australia	SOA	AUSTRALASIA
Victoria	VIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 518 in flower of 1,151 examined

29%

80%

94%

34%

Proportion of examined Daviesia brevifolia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	58	0%	0% to 6%
Feb	0	43	0%	0% to 8%
Mar	0	43	0%	0% to 8%
Apr	0	54	0%	0% to 7%
May	1	66	2%	0% to 8%
Jun	0	41	0%	0% to 9%
Jul	19	65	29%	20% to 41%
Aug	146	183	80%	73% to 85%
Sep	305	326	94%	90% to 96%
Oct	47	138	34%	27% to 42%
Nov	0	76	0%	0% to 5%
Dec	0	58	0%	0% to 6%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Daviesia brevifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 518 of 1,151 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,618 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.0 °C	6.2 °C	8.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.3 °C	27.1 °C	29.0 °C
Annual rainfall	416 mm	527 mm	775 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	52 mm	62 mm	112 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,618 research-grade observations of Daviesia brevifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.