Swainsona murrayana
Small perennial herb with small pink and red striped flowers which appear between late August and October.
Swainsona murrayana
Slender Darling-pea (Swainsona murrayana) is a prostrate, ascending to erect perennial herb to about 25 cm tall. Its leaves are mostly 5–10 cm long with 3-11 leaflets 5–30 mm long and 1–2 mm wide. The flowers are up to 10 mm long and pealike with the keel a solid pink and the standard (rear or other petal) usually has pink and white stripes (some flowers are found with all pink colouring and darker pink stripes on the standard).
Flowering usually begins in late August to early September and finishes by the end of October, with some minor geographic and seasonal variations.
HABITAT
Slender Darling-pea is generally found in remnants of the Northern Plains Grassland community on red to brown clay loams and clay soils that are usually seasonally waterlogged; annual rainfall is 350-450 mm.
Such remnants generally survive where cultivation, irrigation and other such development is absent, and where grazing has been frequent but not too intense, however there are exceptions.
