The native desert pea is a flower of mourning for some First Nations groups, symbolising a similar narrative to the Anzac poppy. Now, one woman is pushing for the pea to have the same national honour.

COMMON NAME/S. Sturt’s Desert Pea, Ngooringa. BOTANICAL NAME. Swainsona formosa. ORIGIN. Australia; The state emblem of South Australia. HABIT. Annual groundcover with sprawling stems to 2m long.

A sea of felt Desert Peas were adorned on the shirts, hats and dress of the community members who gathered at Picnic Point to mark 180 years since the Battle of Meewah.

Sturt Desert pea numbers have exploded around Alice Springs, ... "I plant a seed into that and then I just work to keep it moist and the seed will pop up in within a week," he said.

The desert pea is a flowering plant that grows in the centre of Australia, from far west New South Wales, into South Australia and Queensland, and across into Western Australia.

As the first day of spring hits, Grace McPhail, 3, is revelling in the balmy weather and the native flowers blooming around her Roxby Downs home.

Sturt’s desert pea. ON Sunday, October 25, from 10.30am to 2.30pm the Friends of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide have their next plant sale.

Desert pea to sit alongside Flanders poppy as a flower of remembrance. There was a sea of small desert peas adorning the members of the public who gathered to mark 180 years since Multuggerah led ...