Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Securigera varia
Common name
Crown vetch
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Roadsides and disturbed sites, often in moist places. ACT. Tablelands and western edge of the ranges south from Bredbo.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb, sprawling or to 0.8 m tall. Stems hairless or almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 11-27 leaflets, each 1-2 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, the terminal leaflet largest, surfaces hairless, margins entire, tips blunt to more or less notched, and mucronate. Flowers 8-15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel Standard petal pink to pink-purple, wings whitish, keel whitish with a deep purple tip. Flowers in clusters of 10-16 flowers. Flowers Summer.
Was Coronilla varia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Securigera~varia (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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