Common Name

Sturt's Desert Pea, Sturt Pea, Marlu Pedi, Blood Flower

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Annual or short lived perennial forb, prostrate or sprawling. Leaves alternating along the stems, composed of 9-17 leaflets, each 1-3cm long, 5-15mm wide, flat, hairy, tips pointed, blunt, or notched. Flowers red, rarely pink or almost white. Pea flower with five petals, two almost joined together. Flowers in clusters of 2-6 flowers, the stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Protected NSW.

Description and photo (as Clianthus formosus) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 386

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