Flowers. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Cullulleraine, Vic

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

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Ian Telford, Darling River, NSW

Common Name

Hairy Darling Pea, Darling Pea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub 1-2m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, composed of 11-23 leaflets each 0.5-3.5cm long, 2-15mm wide, flat, hairless above, hairy to slightly hairy below, with smooth edges and blunt tips with a slight notch. Flowers purple to pink or mauve, sometimes white, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together. Flowers in racemes of 12-30 flowers. Endangered Vic. Threatened list Vic.

Description and photo (as Swainsona greyana ssp. greyana) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 414

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