Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Arid Lands Botanic Garden near Port Augusta, SA

Flowers on shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, near Port Augusta, SA

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, near Port Augusta, SA

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, near Port Augusta, SA

Common Name

Orange Darling Pea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 30cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 5-13 leaflets, each 0.1-2.5cm long, 1-4mm wide, flat, hairy, rarely hairless. Tips of the side leaflets pointed, or rounded and notched with a point in the notch, often looking as if the tip is 3-toothed. Tips of the end leaflets pointed or rounded, sometimes notched. Flowers orange to red, brown, or yellowish, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together. Flowers in racemes of 5-20+ flowers. Endangered Vic.

Description and photo (as Swainsona stipularis var. stipularis) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 420-421

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