PLANTS FOR SPECIAL PLACES
4. Screening plants

BOSSIAEA CORDIGERA                    Fabaceae                            Wiry bossia
Bossieae cordigera
[cordigera -  heart-shaped leaves]
A scrambling prostrate shrub of damp situations along rivers, and at higher elevations, where it is usually knee-high with long branches straggling over rocks and vegetation.  Leaves bright green, small, heart-shaped, opposite.
Solitary golden pea flowers with blackish back and reddish purple keel on erect long stalks.
Pod flattened, 1.5 cm long.  Flowering spring and summer. 
Propagation from scarified seed or cuttings.
May reach 20 cm high but is a neat, reasonably open ground cover for a well-drained, sunny site.
Frost hardy.
Tas, Vic.


MUEHLENBECKIA AXILLARIS                 Polygonaceae                Matted Lignum
Muehlenbeckia axillaris
A prostrate, wiry plant, rooting at the nodes.  Insignificant greenish flowers and 5mm rounded leaves. A useful screening plant and adaptable and is found in naturally "benign" habitats or very cold, frosty and damp places. Prefers heavy soils.
Tas, NSW, Vic, ACT and New Zealand.



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