Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Reserve, Qld

Shrub. Photo: Ken Harris, Churchill, Vic

Flowering shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Mt Canobolas, NSW

Common Name

Hill Indigo, Australian Indigo, Austral Indigo, Native Indigo, Duwabili

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2.5m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, hairless to hairy, composed of 5-21 leaflets, each 0.5-4cm long, 2-15mm wide, flat, usually sparsely hairy above, hairy below, with blunt tips usually with a small straight point.  Flowers pink to mauve.  Flowers pea-shaped, with five petals, two almost joined together. Flowers in oval to cylindrical racemes, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 396-397

PlantNETdescription:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Indigofera~australis