Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Glycine tabacina
Common name
Variable glycine, Glycine pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy sites, and roadsides. Widespread.
Notes
Creeping or scrambling perennial herb to 0.3 m tall or more, which occasionally twines. Stoloniferous. Stems hairy, bristly, or almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets each 0.7-7 cm long and 3-20 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt; upper surface more or less hairless, lower surface more or less bristly. Standard petal 5-12 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, blue mauve to violet or purple, often with white markings, in clusters of 4-12 flowers, to about 14 cm long. Flowers mainly Spring to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glycine~tabacina (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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