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Swainsona pedunculata

Swainsona pedunculata is a small annual herb from inland Western Australia, growing in rocky or stony ground in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne and Murchison regions. It is a wildflower of arid country, grown mainly by seed in gardens that suit native and dryland plants.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly after sowing and then sparingly; avoid soggy soil.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or stony soil
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Swainsona pedunculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a small, ascending annual herb with imparipinnate leaves with 3 to 7 narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped leaflets, and racemes of 2 to 3 purple flowers.

Where it grows

This species of pea grows in rocky or stony places in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne and Murchison bioregions of inland 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 · Swainsona campestris

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swainsona pedunculata 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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