Swainsona procumbens

Spreading or ascending perennial herb, to 50 cm tall; stems either glabrous or sparsely pubescent with minute appressed basifixed or subbasifixed hairs. Leaves mostly 5–15 cm long; leaflets 15–25, linear to obovate, 5–30 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, apices usually obtuse or retuse, sometimes mucronate, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent below; stipules 2–7 mm long, often toothed. Racemes mostly 2–12-flowered; flowers 10–20 mm long; calyx more or less glabrous, upper teeth usually shorter than tube, lower teeth often longer; petals pinkish, mauve or purplish, often turning blue; standard 12–18 mm long, 15–25 mm wide, ovate-elliptic to suborbicular, clawed; keel c. 12–15 mm long, crescent-shaped, beak upcurved, twisted into a complete spiral, tip yellow; style tip incurved or inflexed, with few or no hairs below. Pod narrow-ellipsoid to obloid, mostly 20–40 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, fusiform, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, stipe to c. 7 mm long; seeds c. 20, cordate to reniform, c. 2.5 mm long, brown. Flowers Aug.–Nov.