Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australan National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, W of Cobar

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, W of Cobar

Common Name

Woolly Darling Pea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb or shrub to 1.6m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with about 15-31 leaflets each 0.2-1.6cm long, 2-10mm wide, flat, hairy becoming hairless, with blunt or notched tips. Flowers reddish purple or blue, rarely white, with 5 petals, two almost joined together. Flowers in long cylindrical racemes, borne on the ends of the stems.

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 412

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