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Woolly Darling Pea

Swainsona burkittii

Woolly Darling Pea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Woolly Darling pea is a perennial subshrub from inland south-eastern Australia, grown for its dark reddish-purple pea flowers. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant plant that needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Swainsona burkittii, commonly known as woolly Darling pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is an erect or low-lying perennial with imparipinnate leaves usually with 15 to 30 egg-shaped to more or less circular leaflets, and racemes of up to fifty dark reddish-purple flowers.

Where it grows

This species of swainsona grows in shrubland and sparse woodland in the far west of New South Wales and the Flinders Ranges and Eyre Peninsula of South Australia.

Other Swainsona plants

Swainsona acuticarinata · Swainsona adenophylla · Swainsona affinis · Swainsona beasleyana · Southern Swainson Pea · Slender Swainson Pea · Swainsona bracteata · Swainsona burkei · Swainsona cadellii · Swainsona calcicola · Swainsona campestris · Pea Flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swainsona burkittii 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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