Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sturt National Park, New South Wales

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sturt National Park, New South Wales

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Innaminka, SA

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Sturt National Park, New South Wales

Common Name

Native Verbine, Native Scurf-pea, Tall Verbine

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or perennial forb, often appearing annual, to 2.5m tall.  Leaves alternating along the stem.  Leaves composed of 3 flat leaflets, 1-7cm long, usually 10-30mm wide, flat, dotted with brown to black glands, hairless or sparsely hairy on the upper surface, hairy below, the edges toothed.  Flowers pink, bluish, or purple.  Flowers pea-shaped, with five petals, two almost joined together.  Flowers in racemes of 20+ flowers, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves.  Endangered Vic.  Threatened list Vic.

Description and photo (as Psoralea australasica) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 407

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