Eutaxia microphylla

Eutaxia microphylla, commonly called common eutaxia or mallee bushpea, is a small heath-like shrub of the Fabaceae endemic to southern Australia. Plants form dense, rounded bushes 30-100 cm tall, with slender, wiry, ridged stems clothed in tiny opposite leaves. The leaves are sessile, narrowly obovate to almost terete, 2-7 mm long, dark green above and paler below, with a short recurved point and a slightly grooved upper surface. From late winter through spring the bushes are smothered in small pea-flowers about 8 mm across, the standard bright yellow with a deep red-brown keel and similarly marked wings, borne singly or in pairs in the upper leaf axils. The fruits are short, ovoid, slightly inflated pods 4-6 mm long containing one or two seeds. The species favours sandy or gravelly soils on heaths, mallee woodland, and stony rises in semi-arid country.