Gastrolobium minus

A prostrate shrub with bright red and yellow pea flowers and attractive round, shiny green leaves with silvery underside. This ground-hugging shrub forms a dense mat and looks great trailing over exposed banks and slopes, and under trees with light, dappled shade. It flowers in winter and spring and grows from 0.1 to 0.2m high and spreads from 1 to 3m wide and tolerates drought and frost. It grows in sandy loam, gravelly loam, clay loam, clay and sandy clay. Origin – Southern Wheatbelt.