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Swainsona villosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is a prostrate or ascending plant, with imparipinnate leaves with 7 to 15 egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of 2 to 15 usually purple, sometimes pink or white flowers.
This Swainson-pea grows on sandy or loamy soils on stone and sandplains in the north of South Australia, in the Central Ranges, Finke, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, Stony Plains of southern Northern Territory, and the Central Ranges, Gascoyne and Great Sandy Desert bioregions of Western Australia.
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 villosa 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.
