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Swainsona campestris

Swainsona campestris
Photo: Marie Elizabeth Phillips, CC BY 3.0 au

Swainsona campestris is an erect perennial herb in the pea family, native to arid southern Australia. It is grown mainly as a hardy native wildflower in dry, sandy, sunny sites where drainage is good.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates drought and dislikes waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy loam soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers and cool winters; protect from prolonged frost and waterlogged cold.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia to South Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Swainsona campestris is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of southern Australia. It is an erect perennial herb with imparipinnate leaves with 9 to 11 linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaflets, and racemes of pink or purple flowers in racemes of 5 to 10.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in sandy soil on treeless plains or sparse woodland in South Australia and south-eastern Western Australia.

Other Swainsona plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swainsona campestris 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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