To 1.2M. Tufted erect emergent perennial herb. Thick dark green broadly ovate to lanceolate leaves. Yellow 5-petalled flowers Sept to Mar. An excellent water plant for dams and ponds.
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Rytidospermum caespitosum – Common wallaby Grass
To 90CM. Tufted perennial grass. Leaves variable, usually hairy, flat or rolled often blue-green on upper surface.Panicles variable, usually dense with purplish flowered spikelets Sept to Dec.
Carex tereticaulis – Common Sedge, Hollow Sedge, Poong’ort
To 1.2M. Densely tufted clump. Long, narrow grey-green leaves.Narrow dense spike-like panicle with orange-brown with whitish margins Sept to Dec.
Tetragonia implexicoma – Bower Spinach
To 1M. Prostrate, sometimes mound forming, trailing low shrub. Clusters of thick, semi-succulent bright green diamond shaped leaves.Single, strongly scented yellow flowers on slender stalks Aug to Nov. Succulent reddish berry.
Mimulus repens – Creeping Monkey-flower
20CM. Spreading suckering perennial herb, stems erect when submerged. Pairs of succulent sessile ovate leaves. Flowers blue to mauve Sept to Apr.
Acacia provincialis – Wirildra – Swamp Wattle
To 8M. Bushy open shrub or tree. Long, narrow, tapering bluish-green phyllodes.Lemon-yellow, perfumed, dense ball-shaped flower heads arranged in long racemes, intermittent flowering all year peak Sept to Jan. Pods linear, dark brown to black
Ricinocarpus pinifolius – Wedding Bush
To 3M. Dense erect shrub. Long, narrow dull green leaves.Masses of fragrant, open, white flowers in terminal clusters Aug to Nov.
Lepidosperma laterale – Variable Sword-sedge
Tp0 1.5M. Tufted clumping plant. Stems and leaves flat to slightly curved, leaves shorter, sometimes twisted.Narrow, loose to erect spreading panicle with few brown spikelets Oct to Mar.
Lepidosperma gladiatum – Coast Sword-sedge
To 1.5M. Clump-forming perennial. Leaf blades and stems wide, flat and curved.Large, dense panicle with many clustered pale brown spikelets Oct to Mar.
Lepidosperma concavum – Sand-hill or Hill Sword-sedge
To 60CM. Tufted with long vertical rhizomes. Leaf blades wide, flat and curved, dark yellow to grey-brown at base.Erect, ovate panicle with spreading branches with dense clusters of brown spikelets Sept to Feb.