Flowers and pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 120km west of Wanaaring, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 120km west of Wanaaring, NSW

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, 120km west of Wanaaring, NSW

Common Name

Bluebush Pea, Loose-flowered Rattlepod

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub to 2m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, usually of only one leaflet per leaf, occasionally with three, the two lateral leaflets much smaller than the central leaflet.  Leaflets 1-8cm long, 2-25mm wide, flat, hairy.  Flowers yellow, pea-shaped, with five petals, two almost joined together. Flowers in terminal racemes of 15-30 flowers.

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 page 387

PlantNET description with photo (as Crotalaria eremaea):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crotalaria~eremaea