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Matted Bush Pea

Pultenaea pedunculata

Matted Bush Pea
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea pedunculata, commonly known as matted bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a prostrate, densely matted shrub with softly-hairy branches that often form roots, narrow elliptic leaves, and bright yellow and brick-red flowers.

Where it grows

Matted bush-pea grows in forest, woodland, heathland and grassland from near Sydney in New South Wales through Victoria and south-eastern South Australia, to Tasmania where it is common and widespread in dry, rocky places.

Other Pultenaea plants

Bush Pea · Bristly Bush Pea · Pultenaea adunca · Grafton Bush Pea · Tall Bush Pea · Pultenaea arida · Bearded Bush Pea · Pultenaea aspalathoides · Budawang Bush Pea · Pultenaea barbata · Bentham's Bush Pea · Blakely's Bush Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea pedunculata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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