Procumbent or ascending perennial shrub 40–70 cm tall; stems often rooting at nodes, unarmed or with soft spines, covered with a mixture of simple and glandular hairs. Leaves 1–3-foliolate; leaflets ovate or obovate, mostly 5–20 mm long, 2–12 mm wide, both surfaces sparsely glandular-hairy, margins serrate, apices obtuse or emarginate; stipules to c. 10 mm long, coarsely toothed. Inflorescence 1(–2)-flowered; pedicels c. 2 mm long; calyx to c. 9 mm long, 5-veined, densely hirsute, teeth lanceolate, much longer than tube; corolla usually 7–20 mm long, pink or purple; standard orbicular; wings as long as keel. Pod ovate, 5–7 mm long; seeds 1–2, reniform, c. 2.5 mm long, tuberculate, brown or blackish. Flowers mainly Dec.–Mar.
VVP, GipP, CVU, HSF. Also naturalised Tas. Native to Europe. Occasionally reported as a weed of pasture lands in the south of the State; possibly not truly naturalised.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
