Goodia lotifolia

Yellow pea

Tall pea-flowering shrub, forms a thicket-like shrub with strong whippy branches arching and curving to ground level. Young branchlets and underside of leaflets either smooth or sparsely hairy. Bluish-green leaves divided into 3 egg-shaped leaflets 5-35mm x 3-29mm. Bright yellow flowers with red markings on long sprays, to 10cm of lightly fragrant pea flowers.

  • Ecological role: Bird attracting: seeds, insects, Butterfly attracting: food plant for caterpillars
  • Height: 3m
  • Width: 1-3m
  • Sun: Full sun
  • Soil type: Free-draining soils
  • Flowering time: Spring