Plant Activity

Ground Cover

Hop Goodenia

Common name: Hop Goodenia

Scientific name: Goodenia ovata (prostrate)

Type of plant: Ground Cover

Details:

  • 2 metres across
  • Attracts bees
  • Yellow flowers in Spring

 

Running Postman

Common name: Running Postman

Scientific name: Kennedia prostrata

Type of plant: Ground Cover

Details:

  • 2 metres across
  • Attracts butterflies
  • Wavy leaf
  • Red flowers in Summer.
 

 

Grass

Blue Tussock Grass

Common name: Blue Tussock Grass

Scientific name: Poa poiformis

Type of plant: Grass

Details: 

  • 50 cm high
  • Dark green weeping foliage
  • Attracts lizards
 

 

Kangaroo Grass

Common name: Kangaroo Grass

Scientific name: Themeda triandra

Type of plant: Grass

Details:

  • 70 cm high
  • Bronze flowerheads in Spring
  • Food plant for caterpillars
 

Spear Grass

Common name: Spear Grass

Scientific name: Austrostipa mollis

Type of plant: Grass

Details:

  • Grass stems to 1.2 metres high
  • Tufted grass
  • Long awns (bristles)
 

Sword Grass

Common name: Sword Grass

Scientific name: Gahnia sieberiana

Type of plant: Grass

Details:

  • Tussock forming
  • Sharp edges
 

 

Wallaby Grass

Common name: Wallaby Grass

Scientific name: Microlaena stipoides

Type of plant: Grass

Details:

  • 30 cm high
  • White fluffy flowers in Spring
  • Dormant in Summer
 

 

Rush

Blue Flax Lily

Common name: Blue Flax Lily

Scientific name: Dianella tasmanica

Type of plant: Rush

Details:

  • 90 cm high
  • Broad leaves, blue flowers
  • Native bird and insect attracting
 

 

Knobby Club Sedge

Common name: Knobby Club Sedge

Scientific name: Ficinia nodosa

Type of plant: Rush

Details:

  • Stems to 1 meter
  • Glossy brown fruit
  • Seed heads most of the year
 

 

Spiny Headed Mat Rush

Common name: Spiny Headed Mat Rush

Scientific name: Lomandra longifolia

Type of plant: Rush

Details:

  • 70 cm high
  • Perfumed flower spikes
  • Bird attracting
 

 

Tall Sedge

Common name: Tall Sedge

Scientific name: Carex appressa

Type of plant: Rush

Details:

  • Erect
  • Lime green foliage
  • Rusty brown flowers in Spring
 

 

Shrub

Bushy Needlewood

Common name: Bushy Needlewood

Scientific name: Hakea decurrens

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 4 metres high
  • Erect
  • Stiff, needle-like leaves
  • White perfumed flowers
 

 

Golden Spray

Common name: Golden Spray

Scientific name: Viminaria juncea

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 2.5 metres high
  • Known as Native Broom
  • Large yellow flowers in Summer
 

 

Large Kangaroo Apple

Common name: Large Kangaroo Apple

Scientific name: Solanum laciniatum

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 3 metres high
  • Unusual leaves, purple flowers
  • Birds eat fruit.
 

 

Large Leaf Bush Pea

Common name: Large Leaf Bush Pea

Scientific name: Pultenaea daphnoides

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 1 metre high
  • Prickly leaves
  • Large perfumed flowers in Spring
 

 

Native Fuchsia

Common name: Native Fuchsia

Scientific name: Correa dusky bells

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 50 cm high, 2 metres wide
  • Bell shaped flowers
  • Attracts bees and birds.
 

 

Pink Bells

Common name: Pink Bells

Scientific name: Tetratheca ciliata

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 600 mm high
  • Bell shaped pink flowers in Spring
 

Prickly Currant Bush

Common name: Prickly Currant Bush

Scientific name: Coprosma quadrifida

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 1 metre high
  • Prickly fine thorns or spines
  • Fruits in Summer
 

 

Prickly Wattle

Common name: Prickly Wattle

Scientific name: Acacia Paradoxa

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 2.5 metres high
  • Prickly
  • Gold ball flowers in Spring
  • Excellent bird refuge
 

Rosemary Grevillea

Common name: Rosemary Grevillea

Scientific name: Grevillia rosmarinifolia

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 3 metres
  • Dense with red spidery flowers
  • Spiky leaves
 

 

Showy Bossiaea

Common name: Showy Bossiaea

Scientific name: Bossiaea cinerea

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 1 metre high
  • Hairy stem
  • Red and yellow pea-shaped flowers in Spring
 

 

Tree Everlasting

Common name: Tree Everlasting

Scientific name: Ozothamnus ferrugineus

Type of plant: Shrub

Details:

  • To 2.5 metres high
  • Cotton-like branchlets
  • Daisy-like white flowers in Summer
 

 

Tree

Black Wood

Common name: Black Wood

Scientific name: Acacia melanoxlyon

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 15 metres high
  • Hard fissured bark
  • Long twisted pods
 

 

Coast Banksia

Common name: Coast Banksia

Scientific name: Banksia integrifolia

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 4 metres high
  • Slow growing with large yellow flowers
  • Attracts bees and butterflies
 

 

Coastal Tea Tree

Common name: Coastal Tea Tree

Scientific name: Leptospermum

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 10 metres high
  • White flowers
  • Sculptural appearance
 

 

Late Black Wattle

Common name: Late Black Wattle

Scientific name: Acacia mearnsii

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 15 metres high
  • Smooth dark brown bark
  • Lots of yellow flowers in Spring
 

 

Manna Gum

Common name: Manna Gum

Scientific name: Eucalyptus viminaris

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 20 metres high
  • Straight and tall
  • Favourite of koalas
 

 

Pin Cushion Hakea

Common name: Pin Cushion Hakea

Scientific name: Hakea laurina

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • 6 metres high, 5 metres wide
  • Large attractive pink ball shaped flowers
 

 

Red Flowering Gum

Common name: Red Flowering Gum

Scientific name: Corymbia ficifolia

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 10 metres high
  • Rough furrowed bark
  • Red flowers
  • Large woody gumnuts
 

 

Sheoak

Common name: Sheoak

Scientific name: Casuarina

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 20 metres high
  • Has branchlets
  • Large cones full of seeds
  • Popular with birds
 

 

Swamp Paperbark

Common name: Swamp Paperbark

Scientific name: Melaleuca ericfolia

Type of plant: Tree

Details:

  • To 8 metres high
  • Corky, paper bark
  • Loves moisture
  • Flowers in Spring
 

 

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