Jacksonia scoparia, commonly known as dogwood or winged broom-pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland and eastern New South Wales.
It is a shrub or small tree with angled or winged branchlets, leaves usually reduced to scales, cream-coloured to orange-yellow flowers and oblong, hairy pods.
[2][3][4] Scottish botanist Robert Brown described dogwood in 1811 in Rees's Cyclopædia, from material sent by John White and George Caley to Kew Garden.
[7] Dogwood Creek in Queensland was named after the profusion of the plant in the area by explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on 23 October 1844 during his expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington (now Darwin, Northern Territory).
[8] Jacksonia scoparia is widespread in south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales north from Bega where it grows in woodland on hillsides and ridges, usually on low nutrient soils.