Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Glycine clandestina 3 synonyms: Leptolobium clandestinum, Teramnus clandestinus, Triendilix clandestina |
| Common Name: | love creeper, twining glycine |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Ground Cover (up to 30 cm), Low Growing Shrub (30 cm to 1 m), Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade, Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 30 cm to 2 m high |
| Foliage: | Sparsely scattered dark green leaves divided at central point into 3 stiffly hairy leaflets, on stalks 5-40 mm long. Lower leaflets roundish with rounded tips 0.5-3 cm x 2-10 mm, upper leaflets narrow to oblong 1-8 cm x 2-10 mm, tip pointed or rounded. |
| Flowers: | Small bluish/mauve pea, October-January. Loose sprays of 4-18 small pea flowers on stalks 2-6 cm long in leaf axils. |
| General Comments: | Light open twining herb with long stems, often not noticed until it flowers. The dainty sprays of flowers are most attractive. Very variable in leaf size and shape, hairiness and flower size and colour. Food plant for caterpillars. Likes to go in moist well drained soils in forests and grassy woodlands. Partial to dappled shade. |
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