Creeping Bossiaea

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Bossiaea prostrata


Creeping plant forming a mat of low spreading branches, 0.5 m tall and up to 1.5 m wide. Leaves small, round to oblong, up to 24 mm long and 2-10 mm wide, scattered along stems. Yellow and red-brown pea flowers 1 cm wide, held upright at the end of stems singly or in small groups.


Details
Flora Type
Shrubs
Distinctive Features

Fine spikes (stipules) 1-2 mm long at the base of grey-green oval leaves. Pea flowers with small oblong seed pod.

Biology

Perennial. Grows in wetter soils.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Oct-Dec

Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Bossiaea
Species
prostrata

Food source for seed-eating birds.


Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native