Running-postman

Kennedia prostrata, commonly known as running postman or scarlet runner, is a prostrate trailing perennial herb in the family Fabaceae native to a wide range of southern Australian habitats from Western Australia across South Australia and Victoria to Tasmania and southern New South Wales, where it grows on sandy and gravelly soils in open forest, mallee shrubland and coastal heath. The plant has long, slender, wiry stems 50 to 200 centimetres long that creep and spread across the ground or weave into low vegetation, forming loose mats. The leaves are alternate and pinnately trifoliolate on petioles 1 to 5 centimetres long; the three leaflets are broadly obovate to nearly orbicular, 1.5 to 4 centimetres long, with crisped or wavy margins and a slightly emarginate apex, dark green above and paler and softly hairy beneath. The conspicuous flowers are pea-shaped, 15 to 25 millimetres long, brilliant scarlet to crimson with a small yellow blotch at the base of the standard, borne singly or in pairs on slender peduncles arising from the leaf axils through spring. The fruit is a flattened oblong hairy pod 3 to 5 centimetres long containing several small mottled brown seeds.