Creeping Bossiaea - native (Bossiaea prostrata)

Family: Fabaceae (Pea family).

Native of Australia.

A delicate trailing plant. It can easily be overlooked when not in flower. The flowers are on slender stalks rising from the leaf bases.

Identification:

• it has a scrambling habit
• it has oval 1cm leaves
• it as a prominent mid-vein on the under-surfaces of the leaves.

It is uncommon locally.

Bossiaea: after Bossieu de La Martiniere, who was botanist on the La Perouse expedition 1785-88; prostrata: flat on the ground.

Photos 1: Creeping Bossiaea in Kalimna, Castlemaine. 2: Along the water channel, Elphinstone.