Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Swainsona procumbens
Common name
Broughton Pea, Swamp Pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassland, disturbed sites, swamp margins, and seasonally inundated depressions. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.5 m tall. Stems hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 5–15 cm long, compound, with 15–25 leaflets, each 0.5–3 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface hairless or hairy, tips usually blunt or notched, sometimes with a mucro. Flowers pinkish, mauve or purplish, often turning blue, 10–20 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Keel crescent-shaped, the beak curved upwards, twisted into a complete spiral. Flowers in 2–12-flowered elongated clusters. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Swainsona~procumbens (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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