[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.
