Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Podolobium procumbens
Common name
Trailing shaggy pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland and roadsides. Kosciuszko National Park, tablelands, and the western edge of the ranges, south from east of Bungendore.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate or to 0.30 m tall, rhizomatous. Stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves with sharp tips. Leaves irregularly opposite each other or in irregular whorls of 3, 1-2.5 cm long, 6-18 mm wide, leathery, upper surface reticulate and shining with a few hairs on the veins, lower surface more or less hairy, margins often wavy, stipules bristly, 2–5 mm long. Flowers 10-14 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow-orange to red with red markings and often a red keel. Flowers in clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Podolobium~procumbens (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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