Logan RE 12.2.10 Flora
Common flora for 12.2.10 in Logan, based on the Qld Govt RE Technical Descriptions
common bracken fern
Pteridium esculentum, commonly known as bracken fern, Austral bracken or simply bracken, is a species of the bracken genus native to a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Esculentum means edible.
forked comb fern
Schizaea bifida, the forked comb fern is a fairly common fern found in eastern and southern Australia. Also seen in New Zealand and New Caledonia. In New South Wales it is found near the coast in heathland and eucalyptus woodland. Seen as a low plant, 10 to 35 cm tall. The generic name Schizaea is from the Greek, meaning “to cleave or split”. Bifida means ...more ↓
wolly xanthosia
Xanthosia pilosa, known as the woolly xanthosia is a species of the plant family Apiaceae, but sometimes also placed in Araliaceae or Mackinlayaceae. It grows in south eastern Australia. This species is known for the variability of form, which has caused difficulties in identification and taxonomy. The specific epithet pilosa comes from the Latin, meaning softly ...more ↓
silverleaf
Astrotricha latifolia known as the Broad-leaf Star Hair is a plant found in eastern Australia. A shrub usually seen around 3 metres tall. Though it can grow to 9 metres tall and be an imposing small tree in the eucalyptus understorey.
Hibbertia fasciculata
Hibbertia fasciculata, is a small shrub that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to 40 cm tall and has clusters of narrow leaves that are 4 to 6 mm long and about 0.5 mm wide. Yellow flowers appear from winter to early summer.
hairy guinea flower
Hibbertia vestita, commonly known as hairy Guinea-flower, is a small shrub that is native to Australia. It grows to 30 cm high and has yellow flowers which appear throughout the year.
blueberry ash
Elaeocarpus reticulatus, the blueberry ash, is a large shrub or tree which can grow to a height of 15m. In New South Wales (NSW) rainforests it can attain a height of 30 metres. Its most conspicuous features are white or pink cup-shaped flowers with fringed edges and round blue fruits. Strictly botanically, the fruits are not true berries but drupes. Blueberry ash also ...more ↓
daphne heath
Brachyloma daphnoides, commonly known as daphne heath, is a small shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae. The species has an upright habit, growing to between 0.4 and 1.5 metres in height. The leaves are 4 to 15 mm long and 1.7 to 3.6 mm wide. These are glossy green above and paler underneath. White flowers appear in the leaf axils between August and December in the ...more ↓
coral heath
Epacris microphylla , commonly known as coral heath, is a plant in the heath family Ericaceae and which is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a common, wiry shrub with tiny leaves that are often obscured by the flowers, especially near the ends of the stems. The plant sometimes grows in dense groups, giving the effect of a snowfall.
beautiful heath
Epacris pulchella is common plant from the heath family. The New South Wales coral heath or Wallum heath grows in heathland in moist areas in eastern Australian.
prickly broom heath
Monotoca scoparia, known as the prickly broom heath, is a plant in the heath family, found in south-eastern Australia.
pink beard-heath
Leucopogon ericoides, commonly known as the Pink Beard-heath, is a common shrub found in southeastern Australia.
snow wreath
Woollsia is a monotypic genus in the heath family Ericaceae. The sole species, Woollsia pungens, is a small shrub found in eastern Australia, from Pigeon House Mountain in southern New South Wales north into Queensland.
wedding bush
Ricinocarpos pinifolius is a plant of the family Euphorbiaceae native to Eastern Australia. It was first described by French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines. Its showy fragrant white flowers are a familiar sight to bushwalkers in the spring, and are used locally in flower arranging. This plant is also called a "wedding bush" because it's white leaves represent it. On each ...more ↓
heath aotus
Aotus ericoides, also known as Common Aotus, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to eastern Australia.
variable bossiaea
Bossiaea heterophylla, known as the Variable Bossiaea is a species of flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae) found in eastern Australia. An upright shrub up to 80 cm tall.
hairy parrot pea
Dillwynia retorta is the name given to a shrub in the pea family. They grow to about 3m high. The leaves (about 4-12mm long) are spirally twisted, giving them needle-like shape. Like many other Dillwynia species, this one has yellow flowers with red centres (commonly called "egg-and-bacon").
false sarsaparilla
Hardenbergia violacea is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. It is known in Australia by the common names false sarsaparilla, purple coral pea, happy wanderer, native lilac and waraburra (which comes from the Kattang language). Elsewhere it is also called vine lilac or ...more ↓
heath phyllota
Phyllota phylicoides is a species of flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae) found in New South Wales and Queensland. It was first described by George Bentham in 1837.
early black wattle
Acacia leiocalyx (black wattle, early flowering black wattle, lamb's tail wattle, curracabah) grows in Queensland, Australia and as far south as Sydney. It is widespread and common in eucalypt woodlands, especially on well-drained, shallow soils. It is short-lived and grows 6–7 metres (20–23 ft.) tall, with a trunk about 180 mm (7 inches) in diameter.
sweet wattle
Acacia suaveolens (sweet wattle) is a shrub species endemic to Australia. It grows to between 0.3 and 3.5 metres high and has smooth purplish-brown or light green bark and has straight or slightly curving blue-green phyllodes The pale yellow to near white globular flowerheads generally appear between April and September in its native range. These are followed by ...more ↓
prickly Moses
Acacia ulicifolia, commonly known as prickly Moses is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae, native to Australia.
smooth-barked apple
Angophora leiocarpa is a tree species that is native to eastern Australia. It grows to 25 metres in height and has smooth grey to cream bark that sheds in small patches revealing pink underneath. Its range extends northwards from Grafton in New South Wales to Queensland.
midyim
Midgen Berry, Midyim, or Austromyrtus dulcis is a spreading heathland shrub native to eastern Australia.
red bloodwood
Corymbia gummifera, commonly known as red bloodwood, is a hardwood tree native to eastern Australia.
pink bloodwood
Corymbia intermedia or the pink bloodwood (also known as Eucalyptus intermedia) is a bloodwood native to Queensland and New South Wales. More specifically it is found on a narrow belt ranging from Cooktown to north of Newcastle.
Planchon's stringybark
Eucalyptus planchoniana, the needlebark stringybark is a species of eucalyptus of eastern Australia.
scribbly gum
Eucalyptus racemosa, known as the scribbly gum or snappy gum, is a tree native to eastern Australia. An alternative name is narrow leaved scribbly gum, as the leaves are different from the related Eucalyptus haemastoma, a similar and better known tree.
red stringybark
Eucalyptus resinifera (L. resinifera = "resin bearing"), known as the Red mahogany, is a common eucalyptus tree of eastern Australia. Its range of distribution is from Jervis Bay north to about Gladstone, Queensland in dry sclerophyll or wet sclerophyll forest habitats, preferring soils of a medium to high fertility.
wild may
Leptospermum polygalifolium, commonly known as tantoon, is a species of shrub of the family Myrtaceae native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. Six subspecies are recognised, though there is significant intergradation between them.
flaky-barked teatree
Leptospermum trinervium is a shrub, commonly called the paperbark teatree, which is endemic to Australia.
brush box
Lophostemon confertus (syn. Tristania conferta), is an evergreen tree native to Australia, though it is cultivated in the United States and elsewhere. Common names include brush box, Queensland box, Brisbane Box, pink box, box scrub, and vinegartree. Its natural range in Australia is north-east New South Wales and coastal ...more ↓
wallum bottlebrush
Banksia aemula, commonly known as the wallum banksia, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae. Found from Bundaberg south to Sydney on the Australian east coast, it is encountered as a shrub or a tree to 8 m (26 ft) in coastal heath on deep sandy soil, known as Wallum. It has wrinkled orange bark and shiny green serrated leaves, with green-yellow flower spikes, known as ...more ↓
broad-leaved geebung
Persoonia cornifolia is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and hairy yellow flowers, and grows in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.
no known common name
Persoonia stradbrokensis is a shrub native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia.
small-leaved geebung
Persoonia virgata is a shrub native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia.
conesticks
Petrophile canescens, known as conesticks, is a common shrub of the family proteaceae found in eastern Australia. It is found growing on deep sandy soils, often in open forest or heathlands. It can be distinguished from the related Petrophile pulchella by its finely hairy new growth.
no known common name
Strangea linearis is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to eastern Australia.
forest boronia
Boronia rosmarinifolia, commonly known as the forest rose, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with many branches, simple leaves and pale to bright pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.
wallum zieria
Zieria laxiflora, commonly known as wallum zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets, and clusters of about nine white or pale pink flowers with four petals and four stamens. It usually grows is coastal heathland.
current bush
Leptomeria acida known as Acid Drops or Sour Currant-Bush is an apparently leafless parasitic shrub, found on the coast and ranges in eastern Australia. The habitat is dry eucalyptus woodland, often in sheltered sites. This plant is a root parasite. Branchlets are stiff, angular and spreading. Red flowers form in summer on racemes, 15 to 20 mm long. The ...more ↓
Queen-of-the-bush
Pimelea linifolia is an Australian shrub, variously known as queen-of-the-bush and the slender or flax-leafed riceflower. It is widespread throughout the south and east of the continent and is toxic to livestock....
common dodder
Cassytha filiformis, common name love-vine, is a species of obligate parasitic vine in the family Lauraceae. The species has a pantropical distribution encompassing the Americas, Indomalaya, Australasia, Polynesia and East Africa In the Caribbean region, it is one of several plants known as "Love vine" because it has a reputation as an aphrodisiac.
fine dodder
Cassytha glabella, commonly known as the slender devil's twine, is a common twining plant of the Laurel family, found in many of the moister parts of Australia. A hemi-parasitic climber. The specific epithet glabella is from Latin, referring to the lack of hairs. The fruit are sweet and mucousy to taste. The Devil's Twine (Cassytha pubescens) and Cassytha ...more ↓
curlywigs
Caustis recurvata, commonly known as curly sedge or pubic hair sedge, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
blueberry lily
Dianella caerulea, commonly known as the blue flax-lily, blueberry lily, or paroo lily, is a perennial herb of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, found across the eastern states of Australia and Tasmania. It is a herbaceous strappy perennial plant to a metre high, with dark green blade-like leaves to 70 cm long. Blue flowers in spring ...more ↓
native iris
Patersonia sericea, commonly known as the purple flag, native iris, silky purple flag or native flag is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae which is endemic to eastern Australia. It is relatively easy to cultivate, and even the type specimen provided to the taxonomist, Robert Brown was "...furnished us by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of ...more ↓
mat rush
Lomandra longifolia, commonly known as spiny-head mat-rush, spiky-headed mat-rush or basket grass, is a perennial, rhizomatous herb found throughout eastern Australia. The leaves are 40 cm to 80 cm long, and generally have a leaf of about 8 mm to 12 mm wide. It grows in a variety of soil types and is frost, heat and drought tolerant. Labillardiere described ...more ↓
wiry panic
Entolasia stricta, commonly known as wiry panic, is a species of right angled grass in the Poaceae family. It is found in eastern Australia on sandy or sandstone-based soils. The leaves are inrolled or curved inwards and somewhat rough to the touch. It first appeared in scientific literature in 1810 as Panicum strictum in the Prodromus Florae Novae ...more ↓
blady grass
Imperata cylindrica (commonly known as cogon grass /koʊˈɡoʊn/, kunai grass /ˈkuːnaɪ/, blady grass, alang-alang, cotton wool grass, kura-kura) is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. Red cultivars of the species grown as ornamental plants are known as Japanese bloodgrass.
hairy panic
Panicum effusum, commonly known as hairy panic, is a grass native to inland Australia. It occurs in every mainland state, as well as New Guinea. In dry conditions, the fast-growing grass can become a tumbleweed.
kangaroo grass
Themeda triandra is a perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans. It does not do well under heavy grazing pressure, but benefits from ...more ↓
swamp foxtails
Baloskion tetraphyllum is a rush-like plant in the family Restionaceae. Common names include tassel rope-rush, plume rush and Australian reed.
forest grasstree
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii (also known as Johnson's Grass Tree) is a large plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea found in eastern Australia. The trunk can grow to 5 metres tall. Older foliage is very strong, hence one of the common names being "steel grass", and is commonly used in floral design where it can be bent and looped without breaking.
