Books:

Most books dealing with Australian native plants will contain useful information on the botany and horticulture of the pea-flowered plants. Some of the most detailed references are listed below (most, if not all, of the following are out-of-print but may be available through municipal libraries).

• Elliot, R and Jones D (1982), The Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants, all volumes, Lothian Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne.
• Symon, D and Jusaitis, M (2007), Sturt Pea, a Most Splendid Plant, Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, and Department for Environment & Heritage, Government of South Australia, Adelaide.
• Wrigley, J and Fagg, M (2013 – 6th ed), Australian Native Plants: Cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation, Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland.
• Woolcock, D. (1989), A Fieldguide to Native Peaflowers of Victoria and Southeastern Australia, Kangaroo Press in association with The Society for Growing Plants-NSW, Kenthurst, NSW.

Journals:

Numerous issues of the Society’s journal Australian Plants are particularly useful for those interested in growing the Australian “peas”. Back issues of Australian Plants have been digitised and can be searched and viewed online. Searching these for a particular species may find useful references.

• Vol 4, No.35 June 1968: Phyllota; Poison pea flowers.
• Vol 10, No.79 June 1979: Australian Pea-flowers, Their Cultivation; The Plant Family Fabaceae.
• Vol 10, No.82 March 1980: Crotalaria.
• Vol 11, No.86 March 1981: Peaflower Plants of Australia; Psoralea; Glycine.
• Vol 11, No.87 June 1981: Bossiaea and related genera (includes, Platylobium, Hovea, Templetonia, Goodia).
• Vol 11, No.89 December 1981: Sturt’s desert pea – history, cultivation and propagation; Grafted desert peas.
• Vol 12, No.95 June 1983: Pultenaea Part 1.
• Vol 12, No.99 June 1984: Pultenaea Part 2.
• Vol 13, No.102 March 1985: Pultenaea Part 3.
• Vol 13, No.106 March 1986: Pultenaea Part 4.
• Vol 13, No.107 June 1986; Pultenaea Part 5.
• Vol 14, No.111 June 1987: Pultenaea Part 6.
• Vol 14, No.112 September 1987: Pultenaea Part 7.
• Vol 14, No.115 June 1988: Pultenaea Part 8.
• Vol 14, No.116 September 1988: Pultenaea Part 9.
• Vol 15, No.119 June 1989: Fabaceae – the Pea-flowered Wildflower Family; Pultenaea Part 10; Gompholobium.
• Vol 15, No.120 September 1989: Pultenaea Part 11.
• Vol 15, No.124 September 1990: Sturt’s desert pea.
• Vol 17, No.135 June 1993: Chorizema.
• Vol 17, No.138 March 1994: Burny bean – Mucuna gigantea.

Internet:

• ‘Dusky’ – The Runaway Coral Pea
• Everything New is Old Again; Is it a Gastrolobium?? Probably….
• Fabaceae tribes Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae
• Family Fabaceae – faboideae. Botanical details from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
• Garden Clinic, Pretty Peas – native pea flowers
• Growing Native Plants – a selection of horticultural plant profiles from the Australian National Botanic Garden’s ‘An introduction to Growing Native Plants’. The following pea flowers are included:
  • Bossiaea walkeri
  • Castanospermum australe

• • Chorizema cordatum
  • Daviesia arborea
  • Daviesia mimosoides
  • Gastrolobium celsianum
  • Gastrolobium sericeum
  • Indigofera australis
  • Jacksonia scoparia
  • Mirbelia speciosa
  • Pultenaea pedunculata
  • Pultenaea villosa
  • Swainsona formosa
  • Swainsona galegifolia
  • Viminaria juncea
  • Gompholobium: The Glory Peas
• The Pea Key; An interactive key for Australian Pea-flowered Legumes.
• Wallum Pea Flowers