Indigofera australis
“Native Indigo”

Click here to see if this plant is on our current stock list.

SHRUB TO 2 METRES TALL & 2 METRES WIDEOpen spreading habit, blueish-green foliage, purple perfumed pea flowers in spring. Can be pruned. Frost hardy. Drought tolerant. Shade tolerant. Attracts Pea Blue & Common Grass Blue butterflies. Possibly toxic to cattle.

Suitability
Category	Small Shrubs up to 2m
Family	Fabaceae
Aspect	Sun or Shade
Soil	Adaptable, Well-drained
Habitat	Sub-Tropical Rainforest
Features
Bird Attracting, Butterfly Plants, Drought Tolerant Species, Frost Tolerant Plants, Perfumed Flowering Plants
Localities
Ascot, Ashgrove, Auchenflower, Bardon, Camp Hill, Carina, Carina Heights, Chapel Hill, Chelmer, Clayfield, Corinda, Cubberla Creek, Enoggera Catchment, Enoggera Ck Corridor, Graceville, Indooroopilly, Ipswich area, Ironside, Ithaca, Kenmore, Kenmore Hills, Milton, Mt Gravatt, Nathan, Normanby, Oxley, Pine Rivers, Pinjarra Hills, Pullenvale, Rainworth, Rosalie, Seven Hills, Sherwood, South Stradbroke Island, Toowong, Torwood
Host Plant For These Butterflies
Common Grass-blue (Zizina labradus), Tailed Pea-blue (Lampides boeticus)
Nectar & Pollen Food source for Birds Below
Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys), Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta), Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris), Fuscous Honeyeater (Ptilotula fusca), Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii), Little Friarbird (Philemon citreogularis), Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla), Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera), Musk lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna), New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus), Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala), Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus), Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia), Scarlet Honeyeater (Myzomela sanguinolenta), Striped Honeyeater (Plectorhyncha lanceolata), The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), Yellow-faced Honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops), Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops)
Attracts Insects as a Food source for Birds Below
Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), Black-breasted Button-quail (Turnix melanogaster), Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae), Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki), Brown Quail (Synoicus ypsilophorus), Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus), Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus), Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Common Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre), Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus), Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis), Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis), Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis youngi), Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis), Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica), Grey-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis), Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis), Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans), Large-billed Scrubwren (Sericornis magnirostra), Leaden Flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula), Little Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus), Little Grassbird (Poodytes gramineus), Little Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha), Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus), Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius), Pale-yellow Robin (Tregellasia capito), Pallid Cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus), Paradise Riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus), Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus), Red-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus), Red-browed Treecreeper (Climacteris erythrops), Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii), Rose Robin (Petroica rosea), Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris), Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang), Shining Bronze-cuckoo (shining bronze-cuckoo), Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus), Speckled Warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus), Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), Spotted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma punctatum), Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus), Striated Thornbill (Acanthiza lineata), Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera), Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela), Variegated Fairy-wren (Malurus lamberti), Weebill (Smicrornis brevirostris), White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis), White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone olivacea), White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea), White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor), Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys leucophrys), Yellow Thornbill (Acanthiza nana), Yellow-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa), Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis)

Indigofera australis“Native Indigo”

Click here to see if this plant is on our current stock list.

Related products

Acacia hispidula“Hairy Wattle”

Pomax umbellata“Pomax”

Benthamina alyxifolia“Shiny – leaved mistletoe”

Allocasuarina rigida“Mountain She-Oak”

Indigofera australis
“Native Indigo”

Acacia hispidula
“Hairy Wattle”

Pomax umbellata
“Pomax”

Benthamina alyxifolia
“Shiny – leaved mistletoe”

Allocasuarina rigida
“Mountain She-Oak”