Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Viminaria juncea
Common name
Golden spray, Native broom
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, moist heath, moist sites, and swamps. Coast and ranges. Eastern edge of the tablelands west of Sydney.
Notes
Shrub, usually to 5 m tall. Stems cylindrical, wiry, striate, hairless, upright or weeping. Juvenile leaves compound, with 1-3 leaflets, each mostly 1-6 cm long, 3–15 mm wide. Mature leaves reduced to slender leaf stalks 3-25 cm long. Flowers yellow to orange, often with red blotches, keel usually reddish. Flowers about 8-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters more than 20 cm long. Flowers spring-summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viminaria~juncea (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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