To 40CM. Wildflower. Crowded flat to folded leaves, tips drooping. White to pale lavender flowers with green or purple veins, scattered singly along stems Sept to Dec.
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Caesia calliantha -Blue Grass Lily
To 50CM. Wildflower. Crowded, flat, grass-like leaves, blue-green above, shiny green below. Deep blue to purplish star-like flowers clustered along stout erect stems. Petals of grass lilies tightly spirally twisted after flowering Sept to Jan.
Brunonia australis – Blue Pincushion
To 35CM. Softly hairy perennial herb. Rosette of light green silky-hairy leaves. Dense hemispherical flower heads of bright blue flowers at end of stems Oct to Jan.
Bolboschoenus caldwelli – Sea Club Sedge
To 1M. Reed like, spreading in large patches. Flat, erect grass like leaves of varying lengths. Small compact terminal cluster of golden- or red-brown spikelets on long stems Oct to Feb.
Baumea juncea – Pale Twig-sedge
To 35CM. Slender tufted perennial. Long slender stems and leaves. Dense oblong panicles with few orange- to reddish-brown 1 flowered spikelets.
Baloskion tetraphylla – Tassel Cord-rush
To 1M. Reed-like herb with central flower spike. Bright green feathery leaves, fine soft much-divided branchlets weep from a node just below the flower head Oct to Apr.
Asperula conferta – Common Woodruff
To 30CM. Erect perennial herb. Bright green linear pointed leaves in whorls of 5-6. Tiny white flowers in groups of 3 Sept to Dec.
Ajuga australis – Austral Bugle
To 50CM. Prostrate to erect herb. Velvety grey leaves, decreasing in size up the step. Erect spikes of purple-blue tubular flower, Sept to Dec.
Aceana ovina – Australian Sheep’s Burr
To 60CM. Erect perennial herb. Narrow pinnate leaves, moderately hairy. Tiny, white flowers, with dark purple stamens clumped in groups on a spike Sept to Apr..
Ornduffia reniformis – Running Marsh Flower
1-3M. Tufted semi-aquatic wildflower. Shiny round or kidney-shaped leaves, paler or purplish below, floating, erect in mud or water. Bright yellow flowers, usually 5-petalled, near the top of erect stems up to 1.3m high Oct to Mar.