Logan RE 12.2.12 Flora
Common flora for 12.2.12 in Logan, based on the Qld Govt RE Technical Descriptions
slash pine
Pinus elliottii, commonly known as the slash pine, is a pine tree native to the southeastern United States. Slash pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat.
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.
no known common name
Platysace linearifolia known as Carrot Tops is a slender shrub, found growing on poor sandy soils in eastern Australia, north of Jervis Bay. It may form large colonies and is easily noticed in the late summer and autumn when covered in small white flowers. It grows from 40 cm to 1.5 metres tall. A feature of this plant is the linear leaves, 10 to 25 mm long, and 0.5 to 1 ...more ↓
wild parsnip
Trachymene incisa, the wild parsnip, is a perennial herb native to eastern Australia growing in sclerophyll forest and cleared areas, with a preferences for sandy soils and rock crevices.
tropical sundew
Drosera burmannii, the tropical sundew, is a small, compact species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. Its natural geographical range includes Australia, India, Taiwan, China, Japan, and southeast Asia. It normally spans only 2 cm (0.8 in) in diameter. It is one of the fastest trapping sundews as well, and its leaves can curl around an insect in only a few ...more ↓
tall sundew
Drosera peltata, commonly called the shield sundew or pale sundew, is a climbing or scrambling perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. Among the tuberous sundews, D. peltata has the largest distribution, which includes eastern and western Australia, New Zealand, India, and most of Southeast Asia including the Philippines. ...more ↓
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 ↓
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.
blunt-leaved heath
Epacris obtusifolia is common plant from the heath family. The blunt-leaf heath grows in swampy areas and heathland in eastern Australia. It is usually seen growing less than a metre tall. Flowers form in any time of the year, but are mostly seen between July and January.
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.
heath aotus
Aotus ericoides, also known as Common Aotus, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to eastern Australia.
creeping raspwort
Gonocarpus micranthus is an Australian shrub in the watermilfoil family Haloragaceae native to eastern Australia. Common names include creeping raspwort.
yellow prickly moses
Acacia hubbardiana, commonly known as yellow prickly moses, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is native to parts of north eastern Australia.
swamp mahogany
Eucalyptus robusta, commonly known as swamp mahogany or swamp messmate, is a tree native to eastern Australia. Growing in swampy or waterlogged soils, it is up to 30 m (98 ft) high with thick spongy reddish brown bark and dark green broad leaves, which help form a dense canopy. The white to cream flowers appear in autumn and winter. The leaves are commonly eaten by ...more ↓
swamp may
Leptospermum liversidgei, commonly known as lemon-scented tea-tree, swamp may, olive teatree, or lemon teatree, is a shrub to 4 m found naturally growing in wet coastal heath in Eastern Australia. Leaves are 5–7 mm long, with a distinctive lemony aroma. The white or pink flowers are solitary, followed by a woody capsule.
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.
White's teatree
Leptospermum whitei is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has fibrous, flaky bark, elliptical leaves, white flowers arranged in small groups on the ends of short side branches, and fruit that falls from the plant when mature.
prickly-leaved paperbark
Melaleuca nodosa, commonly known as the prickly-leaved paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with narrow, sometimes needle-like leaves and profuse heads of yellow flowers as early as April or as late as January.
wallum bottlebrush
Melaleuca pachyphylla, commonly known as wallum bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to near-coastal regions of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria use the name Callistemon pachyphyllus.) It is a medium-sized shrub with a straggling habit and red, or sometimes greenish bottlebrush flowers in ...more ↓
coastal teatree
Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark, paper bark tea tree, punk tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m (70 ft) tall, with its trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are egg-shaped, and cream or ...more ↓
thyme honey-myrtle
Melaleuca thymifolia, commonly known as thyme honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is native to eastern Australia. It is often noticed in spring, with its attractive, purple flowers and is one of the most commonly cultivated melaleucas. A fragrant shrub, it usually grows to about 1.0 m (3 ft) tall, has corky bark and slender, wiry stems.
dwarf banksia
Banksia oblongifolia, commonly known as the fern-leaved, dwarf banksia or rusty banksia, is a species in the plant genus Banksia. Found along the eastern coast of Australia from Wollongong, New South Wales in the south to Rockhampton, Queensland in the north, it generally grows in sandy soils in heath, open forest or swamp margins and wet areas. A ...more ↓
swamp banksia
Banksia robur, commonly known as swamp banksia or, less commonly, broad-leaved banksia grows in sand or peaty sand in coastal areas from Cooktown in north Queensland to the Illawarra region on the New South Wales south coast. It is often found in areas which are seasonally inundated.
wallum hakea
Hakea actites, commonly known as the mulloway needle bush or wallum hakea is a shrub or tree of the Proteacea family native to areas in north eastern New South Wales and south eastern Queensland. White nectar rich flowers appear in abundance from late autumn to early spring.
small-leaved geebung
Persoonia virgata is a shrub native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia.
no known common name
Strangea linearis is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to eastern Australia.
wallum boronia
Boronia falcifolia, commonly known as the wallum boronia, is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. It is a shrub with only a few stems, usually three-part leaves and bright pink, four-petalled flowers.
Queensland wax flower
Philotheca queenslandica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a wiry shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end toward the base and densely crowded near the ends of the glandular-warty branchlets, and cream-coloured flowers tinged with pink and arranged singly in leaf axils.
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 ↓
milkmaids
Burchardia umbellata (milkmaids) is a perennial herb native to woodlands and heath of eastern and southern Australia, known in all states. It typically flowers from September until November, in dry sclerophyll forests.
curlywigs
Caustis recurvata, commonly known as curly sedge or pubic hair sedge, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
sword grass
Gahnia sieberiana, commonly known as the red-fruit saw-sedge, is a tussock-forming perennial plant in the family Cyperaceae, endemic to Australia. It is a widespread plant that favours damp sunny sites. Many insect larvae have been recorded feeding on the red-fruit saw-sedge. It may grow over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall.
small-leaved bogrush
Schoenus brevifolius, known as zig-zag bog-rush, is a species of sedge native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. It was described by Robert Brown in 1810.
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 ↓
swamp foxtails
Baloskion tetraphyllum is a rush-like plant in the family Restionaceae. Common names include tassel rope-rush, plume rush and Australian reed.
spreading rope rush
Empodisma minus, commonly known as (lesser) wire rush or spreading rope-rush, is a perennial evergreen belonging to the southern-hemisphere family of monocotyledons called the Restionaceae. The Latin name Empodisma minus translates to “tangle-foot” “small”. E. minus is found from Queensland to South Australia, Tasmania and throughout most of New ...more ↓
flat cord-rush
Eurychorda is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1998. There is only one known species, Eurychorda complanata, endemic to Australia (Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland).
swamp grasstree
Xanthorrhoea fulva is a species of grasstree of the genus Xanthorrhoea native to New South Wales and Queensland. It was previously regarded as a subspecies of Xanthorrhoea resinosa, but reclassified as a species in its own right in 1986.
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.
