The flowers and seed pods of A. podalyriifolia can be used to dye wool. The colours range from grey-green to yellow depending on the mordant used, Martin (1974).

A. podalyriifolia appears to be the most recent Acacia to be considered naturalised in South Australia. Although listed as being cultivated in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens in 1871, and 1878, the earliest herbarium specimen surviving is 1922. It was first considered adventive in 1987 in the vicinity of the old Newman's Nursery near Anstey Hill.