Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Bourke, NSW

Flowers and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Bourke, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Bourke, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Bourke, NSW

Common Name

Woolly Scurf-pea, Woolly Psoralea, Bullamon Lucerne, White Scurf-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Short lived perennial forb, to 90cm tall, later sprawling. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound with 3 leaflets, each 1-5cm long, 5-35mm wide, flat, hairy, edges toothed and wavy, with blunt tips. Flowers pea-shaped, pinkish mauve to purplish, or yellow, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together. Flowers in oval to cylindrical racemes of up to 40+ flowers, 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~pallidum