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Synonyms
Family
Common Names
Origin
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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of stems and leaf stalks (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaf with three leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

elongated flower cluster (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flowers showing large sepals (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

bird flower (Crotalaria laburnifolia), a very similar weedy plant with smaller sepals on its flowers (Photo: Chris Gardiner)

Crotalaria agatiflora

Scientific Name

Crotalaria agatiflora Schweinf.

Synonyms

Crotalaria agatiflora Schweinf. subsp. agatiflora

Family

Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory)
Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)
Leguminosae (South Australia)
Papilionaceae (Western Australia)

Common Names

bird flower, bird-flower, canary bird bush, canarybird-bush, Queensland birdflower, rattlebox

Origin

Native to tropical eastern Africa (i.e. Kenya and northern Tanzania).

Naturalised Distribution

This species is naturalised near habitation in south-eastern Queensland, in the coastal districts of central New South Wales and in south-western Western Australia. It is also sparingly naturalised in eastern Victoria and naturalised on Norfolk Island.

Naturalised overseas in New Zealand and South America.

Notes

Canary bird bush (Crotalaria agatiflora ) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in Queensland, Western Australia and some parts of New South Wales (e.g. in the Gosford City region). For example, in south-western Western Australia it has occasionally escaped cultivation and invaded native grasslands and sandy sites.