Robust annual. Leaflets oblong to obovate, 10–35 mm long, 1–6 mm wide. Flowers 2–5; peduncles 2–6 cm long; calyx 5–7 mm long; corolla 14–20 mm long. Pod 3–5 cm long, 10–12 mm wide; seeds 3.5–5 mm long, blackish. Flowers mainly Aug.–Feb.
MuM, MSB, RobP, CVU, Strz. Also naturalised WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW. Native to Europe. Recorded from several localities in the far north-west of the state and at a single site in South Gippsland; usually on disturbed areas such as pastures and roadsides.
Intermediate specimens with the 1–2-flowered racemes of subsp. monantha but the more robust habit and larger leaflets and pods of the subsp. triflora have been collected in Victoria.
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.
