Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Glycine canescens
Common name
Silky glycine
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats including dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and along streams.Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Trailing or twining perennial herb. Stems silky to rough hairy, the hairs grey, often intermixed with rusty hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 1-8 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, threadlike to flat, or folded lengthwise, surfaces grey-silky and bristly, tips pointed or blunt. Standard petal 6-9 mm long. Flowers reddish or pinkish purple to mauve, fading to bluish, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together, in elongated clusters of 6-12 flowers. Flowers all year, especially July–Nov.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glycine~canescens (accessed 18 January, 2021)
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