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Swainsona recta
Also called Small Purple-pea
Swainsona recta, commonly known as mountain Swainson-pea or small purple pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is an erect or ascending perennial plant with imparipinnate leaves with 5 to 13 very narrowly linear leaflets, and racemes of about 6 to more than 25 purple flowers.
Mountain Swainson-pea grows in grassland and open woodland, often on stony hillsides on the Central and South Western Slopes of New South Wales and in the north and north-east of Victoria.
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 recta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
