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Swainsona laxa
Also called Yellow Swainson-pea, Skeleton Pea, Straggling Swainson Pea
Swainsona laxa, the skeleton pea or yellow Darling pea, is an erect, shrublike native herb of inland Australian sand ridges, often looking leafless, with yellow pea flowers. It is a wild desert species rarely grown in gardens, so care is best judged from its arid native habitat.
Swainsona laxa, the skeleton pea, yellow swainson-pea, yellow Darling pea, or sandhill swainsona, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is an erect, shrublike herb, often appearing leafless, sometimes with 13 to 17 broadly egg-shaped leaflets, and racemes of 15 to 20 usually yellow flowers.
Skeleton pea grows on the upper slopes of sand ridges in western New South Wales, the north-west of South Australia, southern Northern Territory and Queensland.
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 · Swainsona campestris
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swainsona laxa 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.
