
FABACEAE Acacia tetragonophylla seed podsAcacia tetragonophylla seed pod with seeds.
FABACEAE Daviesia hakeioides subsp. subnudaDaviesia hakeoides subsp. hakeoides is spindly leafless shrub to 0.7 m high. It has two-coloured pea flowers. Daviesias have triangular seed pods. It is an inland plant, most common in the western grain growing area but also extends east to the Helena and Aurora Range.
FABACEAE Daviesia nematophylla
FABACEAE Gastrolobium parviflorumBOX POISON. Gastrolobium parviflorum has red and orange flowers.
It is mostly found west of a line between Canna and Israelite Bay which includes nearly all of the wheatbelt. It does not grow in the forested areas south of Perth.
FABACEAE Gastrolobium parviflorumBOX POISON. Gastrolobium parviflorum. The shrub in this photo was about 1 m high but they can grow to 2.5 m.
FABACEAE Gompholobium gompholobioidesGompholobium gompholoides is a low shrub to 0.4 m high with yellow pea flowers.
FABACEAE Gompholobium gompholobioidesGompholobium gompholoides. The photo shows two yellow pea flowers, the leaves, and a spherical fruit.
This species is scattered throughout the grain growing area of Western Australia and also in the Great Victoria Desert and the Eastern Goldfields.
FABACEAE Leptosema daviesioidesUPSIDE-DOWN PEA. Leptosema daviesioides flowers. Most of them are past their prime. These flowers are more elongated than typical pea flowers.
The leaves in the foreground belong to a different plant species.
FABACEAE Leptosema daviesioidesUPSIDE-DOWN PEA. Leptosema daviesioides is a spiky plant with long red flowers at its base. It is often ground-hugging as in the photo.
FABACEAE Leptosema daviesioidesUPSIDE-DOWN PEA. Flowers and spiky phyllodes ('leaves') of Leptosema daviesioides.
FABACEAE Mirbelia graniticaMirbelia granitica is an erect or sprawling shrub up to 1 m high. This one was about 0.6 m high.It was growing near a flat granite outcrop.
FABACEAE Mirbelia graniticaMirbelia granitica is extremely spiny. It is an inland plant and has mostly been recorded east of Westonia. It is endemic to Western Australia.