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Globe Pea

Sphaerolobium minus

Globe Pea
Photo: Reiner Richter, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Sphaerolobium minus, commonly known as globe-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect, rush-like, mostly leafless shrub with yellow and reddish flowers arranged in small groups along the stems.

Where it grows

Globe-pea usually grows in wet heath, sometimes in the understorey of forest and is widely distributed along the coast and nearby ranges of south-east Queensland, eastern New South Wales, higher rainfall parts of southern Victoria, west to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia and south to Tasmania.

Other Sphaerolobium plants

Grampians Globe Pea · Sphaerolobium alatum · Sphaerolobium benetectum · Sphaerolobium calcicola · Sphaerolobium daviesioides · Sphaerolobium drummondii · Sphaerolobium fornicatum · Sphaerolobium gracile · Sphaerolobium grandiflorum · Sphaerolobium hygrophilum · Sphaerolobium linophyllum · Sphaerolobium macranthum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sphaerolobium minus 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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