Bossiaea prostrata

Bossiaea prostrata, commonly known as creeping bossiaea, is a low, mat-forming evergreen subshrub in the family Fabaceae endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring in Victoria, southern New South Wales, Tasmania, and south-eastern South Australia in open eucalypt forest, heathy woodland, and rocky grassland. The plant produces wiry, prostrate to weakly ascending stems 10 to 40 centimetres long that root at the nodes, forming loose ground-hugging patches. Young stems are flattened, ribbed, and finely hairy, becoming terete and woody with age. Leaves are alternate, simple, sessile or very shortly stalked, ovate to almost circular with a small mucronate tip, 4 to 10 millimetres long, dull green to glaucous, leathery, and bear two small inconspicuous stipules. The papilionaceous flowers are produced singly in leaf axils on short pedicels, each about 8 to 10 millimetres long, with a bright yellow standard petal marked with red-brown veins and base, yellow wings, and a reddish keel. The fruit is a flattened oblong pod 1 to 2 centimetres long, dark brown when ripe, that splits to release several smooth seeds.