Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Oxylobium cordifolium

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Bomaderry Creek Regional Park near Nowra

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer S Donaldson, between Braidwood and Tomerong

Common name

Heart-leaved shaggy pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Heath and forest, often on coastal headlands. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of west of Milton. Occasionally elsewhere on the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub, sprawling or to 0.3 m tall. Young stems hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, opposite each other or whorled, 0.3-0.8 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, tips curved down, margins curved down, upper surface with small tubercules, lower surface sparsely hairy. Flowers 6-8 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange or red with red to purple markings. Flowers in short clusters. Flowers Spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxylobium~cordifolium  (accessed 29 January, 2021)