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Waddy Wood

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - peuce

To 10m high with wispy to dense pendulous branches resembling casuarinas. Young trees have stiff foliage with sharp points, probably as a defence against browsers.

Colour: Cream

Painted Lady

Classification: Fabaceae - Gompholobium - scabrum

This slender little bush with small narrow leaves has some of the most striking flowers of the pea family. Flowers are pink/mauve with reddish tinges,

Colour: Mauve

Pea - Thinicola incana

Classification: Fabaceae - Thinicola - incana

Tall open shrub. Orange/red pea flowers and greyish furry leaves. Growing in deep red sand.

Colour: Orange

Red Parrot Pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Dillwynia - hispida

Erect shrub to 0.5 m high; stems pubescent. Leaves linear, usually 3–10 mm long, apex obtuse to acute and often recurved, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate,

Colour: Orange

Leafless Bitter-pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Daviesia - brevifolia

Daviesia brevifolia (Leafless Bitter-pea) is a broom-like shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Australia. It grows to 1 metre in height and has phyllodes with pointed, recurved tips.

Colour: Orange

Red Parrot Pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Dillwynia - hispida

Erect shrub to 0.5 m high; stems pubescent. Leaves linear, usually 3–10 mm long, apex obtuse to acute and often recurved, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate,

Colour: Orange

Coral Vine

Classification: Fabaceae - Kennedia - coccinea

Multicoloured pea flowers stand out on this twining climber. It has glossy green leaves made up of 3 distinct leaflets. Flowers are about 2cm across,

Colour: Orange

Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod

Classification: Fabaceae - Crotalaria - cunninghamii

The distinctive bird-like shape of the flowers (the flower stalk is the bird's beak) give this desert plant its common name. Flowers are a greenish-yellow colour with prominent stripes on the larger

Colour: Other

Dogwood- possibly?

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - unknown

Attractive weeping habit, to 6 m high. Leaves very similar to Acacia stenophylla but tree form not at all similar, or along drainage lines. Flower colour not observed.

Colour: Other

Swainsona sp.

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - Unknown

Prostrate, spreading to about 50cm, the pea like flowers about 30 cm in height coral pink in colour.

Colour: Pink

Australian Trefoil

Classification: Fabaceae - Lotus - australis

Erect or ascending perennial herb to 60 cm high, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Leaves with 5 leaflets, oblanceolate to ± linear or rarely obovate, mostly 10–30 mm long, 2–5 mm wide,

Colour: Pink

Pink Indigofera

Classification: Fabaceae - Indigofera - boviperda subsp. boviperda

Prostrate vine. Compound leaves with 3-7 leaflets, covered in short hairs. Dense flowerheads arising in leaf axils.

Colour: Pink

Hovea

Classification: Fabaceae - Hovea - longifolia

Erect open shrub to 1.5m. Narrow leaves, .

Colour: Purple

Swainsona beasleyana

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - beasleyana

Procumbent perennial, herb, to 0.2 m high. Flowers purple-blue-pink, Aug to Sep. Red sandy or gravelly loam soils.

Colour: Purple

Grey Swainsona

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - canescens

Prostrate or erect, spreading perennial, herb, 0.15-0.6 m high. Fl. purple-pink/purple & yellow & green, May or Jul to Dec. Usually on red sandy soils.

Colour: Purple

Grey Swainsona

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - canescens

Prostrate or erect, spreading perennial, herb, 0.15-0.6 m high. Flowers are purple-pink/purple & yellow & green, May or Jul to Dec. Usually on red sandy soils.

Colour: Purple

Native Liquorice

Classification: Fabaceae - Glycyrrhiza - acanthocarpa

Erect subshrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous. Leaves 2–8 cm long; leaflets 9–13, linear to elliptic or obovate, 15–20 mm long; 2–8 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate, margins with minute, curved hairs,

Colour: Purple

Coast Swainson-pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - lessertiifolia

Swainsona lessertiifolia, commonly known as the Coast Swainson-pea, is a sprawling, largely coastal, perennial herb in the pea family that is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

Colour: Purple

Cockies Tongues

Classification: Fabaceae - Templetonia - retusa

Much-branched shrub, 0.3-4 m high. Fl. red/white-yellow, Apr to Nov. White sand, red clay, brown and white gravel, limestone. Plateaus, coastal cliffs, hillsides, road verges.

Colour: Red

Mountain Pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Gastrolobium - rubrum

Tentative Identification. Spindly, small branched shrub to 1.5 m with leaves 4-6cm long.

Colour: Red

Running Postman

Classification: Fabaceae - Kennedia - prostrata

Prostrate or twining herb; stems ± whitish pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ± circular, rarely broad-obovate, mostly 0.6–2.4 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, margins undulate,

Colour: Red

Sturt's Desert Pea - unusual colour form

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - formosa

This patch of SDP had pale red to orange petals with a bright pink, pink or whitish "boss" on the standard petal.

Colour: Red

Sturt's Desert pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - formosa

A spreading vine that can vary in size and habit, with large plants sometimes standing semi-erect, up to 1m tall. Germinates and flowers rapidly after rain. Colour variants are sometimes found.

Colour: Red

Brachysema aphyllum

Classification: Fabaceae - Brachysema - aphyllum

This prostrate, mat forming pea plant was growing on the road shoulder in gravel. The leafless stems are flattened to function as leaves. The species name (aphyllum) means "without leaves".

Colour: Red

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