Silver Cassia

About

A shrub found across every mainland Australian state and territory, from 0.15 to 3 m tall, with silvery pinnate foliage and mostly winter-blooming yellow flowers. It is one of the most widely distributed native shrubs of the arid interior, including the ranges around Alice Springs.

How to spot it

Pinnate leaves with 1-8 pairs of narrow, silver-grey leaflets; bright yellow flowers in clusters of 2-15, mainly in winter; long, flattened, glabrous seed pods 5-10 cm long.

Found in

• Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park
• N'Dhala Gorge Nature Park