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Swainsona lessertiifolia
Also called Coast Swainson Pea
Bog Pea is a low perennial herb native to south-eastern Australia, growing on sand hummocks and coastal dunes. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, and it is best grown in free-draining sandy soil in full sun.
Swainsona lessertiifolia, commonly known as coast swainson-pea, bog pea, Darling pea poison pea or poison vetch is an erect or ascending perennial herb in the pea family and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has 13 to 21 narrowly elliptic to elliptic leaflets, and racemes of mostly 12 to 25 usually purplish, rarely white flowers.
This species of swainsona occurs in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, often on sand hummocks in near-coastal areas. In South Australia it is found in the south-east of the state, in Victoria it is abundant, mostly west of Wilsons Promontory and in Tasmania grows at Woolnorth, St Marys and on Bass Strait Islands.
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 lessertiifolia 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.
