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Dainty Wedge Pea

Gompholobium glabratum

Dainty Wedge Pea
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, Public domain

Dainty wedge-pea is a low, spreading or ascending shrub from south-eastern Australia, growing up to about 40 cm tall with yellow pea flowers in spring. It suits native or dry-tolerant gardens with good drainage and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
Cool to mild temperatures; suited to subtropical and temperate climates, tolerant of light frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales to Vicotria
Climate
subtropical

About

Gompholobium glabratum, commonly known as dainty wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying or ascending shrub with pinnate leaves that have five to seven leaflets, and yellow and green or greyish flowers.

Where it grows

Dainty wedge-pea grows forest and heath on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales south from Forster to the far north-eastern corner of Victoria.

Other Gompholobium plants

Gompholobium aristatum · Gompholobium aspalathoides · Gompholobium baxteri · Gompholobium burtonioides · Gompholobium capitatum · Gompholobium cinereum · Gompholobium confertum · Gompholobium cyaninum · Dwarf Wedge Pea · Gompholobium foliolosum · Gompholobium gairdnerianum · Gompholobium glutinosum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gompholobium glabratum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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