Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Goodia lotifolia
Common name
Golden tip, Clover tree
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, disturbed sites, and moist gullies. Widespread, except for no records from the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 4 m tall. Stems hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5-3.5 cm long, 3-30 mm wide, hairless or hairy. Flowers yellow, with red to purple, almost black, markings, 9-14 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters 4 to about 14 cm long. Flowers Spring.
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=Goodia~lotifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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