Creeping Bossiaea

Creeping Bossiaea
Creeping Bossiaea
Creeping Bossiaea

Creeping Bossiaea

Bossiaea prostrata

Perennial. Grows in wetter soils. 

Details Description
Type
Shrub
Group
Pea
Identifying Characteristics

Creeping plant forming a mat of low spreading branches, 0.5 m tall and up to 1.5 m wide. Leaves small, round to oblong, up to 24 mm long and 2-10 mm wide, scattered along stems. Yellow and red-brown pea flowers 1 cm wide, held upright at the end of stems singly or in small groups. Flowers October-December.
Distinctive Features

Fine spikes (stipules) 1-2 mm long at the base of grey-green oval leaves. Pea flowers. Seed pod oblong, 20-30 mm long.
Life Form Group
Shrub
Life Form Codes
Prostrate Shrub (PS)
EVC types
EVC 55_61: Plains Grassy Woodland
EVC 55_63: Higher Rainfall Plains Grassy Woodland
Native Status
Native to Australia
Taxonomy
Phylum
Charophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Bossiaea
Species
prostrata
Creeping Bossiaea
Occurs in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia.

Distribution maps indicate current and historic locations where species have been sighted.

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Endangered Status
DEPI Advisory List
Not listed
FFG Act
Not listed
EPBC Act
Not listed

The conservation status of species is listed within Victoria and Australia.

The Department of Environment and Primary Industry (DEPI) Advisory List consists of non-statutory advisory lists of rare or threatened flora and fauna within Victoria.

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (FFG Act) lists threatened species in Victoria. Under the Act, an Action Statement is produced for each listed species.

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is the Australian Government’s key piece of environmental legislation, listing nationally threatened native species and ecological communities.