Flower buds and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, S of Mt Hope, NSW

Common Name

Grey Scurf-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Perennial forb, prostrate. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, leaflets 1-5cm long, 7-40mm wide, flat, hairier on the lower surface, toothed. Flowers white with a pink blotch, pink, or purple, pea-shaped with 5 petals, two almost joined together. Flowers that self-pollinate without opening are white. Flowers in clusters, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves. Endangered Vic. Threatened list Vic.

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