Kennedia procurrens, commonly known as the purple running pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate or climbing herb with trifoliate leaves and pale red to mauve or violet flowers.
Kennedia procurrens is a prostrate or climbing herb with softly-hairy stems long. The leaves are trifoliate with broadly egg-shaped or broadly elliptic leaves long and wide with egg-shaped stipules long at the base. The flower are pale red to mauve or violet, long and arranged in groups of two to ten on a flowering stem long, the flowers on peduncles long. Flowering occurs from late winter to summer and the fruit is a glabrous, cylindrical or flattened pod long.
Kennedia procurrens was first formally described in 1848 in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.[2] [3] The specific epithet (procurrens) means "extending", "jutting out" or "projecting".[4]
Purple running pea grows in woodland in sandy soil in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales as far south as Coonabarabran.