Rosy Bush-Pea
Pultenaea subalpina
Family Fabaceae
About
Pultenaea subalpina, commonly known as rosy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria. It is a rigid, prostrate to erect or spreading shrub with linear leaves and pink, pea-like flowers.
How to spot it
Pultenaea subalpina is a rigid, prostrate to erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and has silky-hairy stems when very young. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, linear, 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) long, 0.7–1.0 mm (0.028–0.039 in) wide with stipules 1.5–2.1 mm (0.059–0.083 in) long at the base. The flowers are pink and arranged in dense clusters of up to twelve with enlarged stipules at the base of the floral leaves. The sepals are
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park — The Grampians & Western Victoria hikes