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About the Catchment Area : Flora


Plants of a Grey Box Woodland - Ground layer

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Common Vanilla-lily
Arthropodium strictum
Annual plant, fleshy grass-shaped leaves, stems with purple flowers to 40cm high in Spring and Summer
Garland Lily
Calostemma purpureum
Bright, deep green strap-like leaves, pink to red flowers on stalks to 50cm high in late summer
Grassland Geranium
Geranium retrorsum
Ankle high plant, flowers Winter through to Summer
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Kangaroo Grass
Themeda triandra
Grows in sunny areas, narrow leaf blades with rough sharp edges, flower heads in fan-shaped clusters in late Spring and Summer
Native Leek
Bulbine bulbosa
Long thin cylindrical leaves, fleshy flowering stem with yellow flower to 30cm high in Spring
Pale Fanflower
Scaevola albida
Forms mat on the ground, pale green leaves, white fan-shaped flowers in Spring and Summer
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Running Postman
Kennedia prostrata
Trails along the ground several metres from the roots, round leaves have wavy edges, bright red flowers late Winter to early Spring
Wallaby Grass
Danthonia spp
Each floret has a two-lobed seed which looks like wallaby ears, flowers mostly in Spring

 

See also

^Plants of a Grey Box Woodland - Shrub layer

^Plants of a Grey Box Woodland - Tree layer

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