Logan RE 12.3.3 Flora
Common flora for 12.3.3 in Logan, based on the Qld Govt RE Technical Descriptions
mulga fern
Cheilanthes sieberi is a small fern growing in many parts of Australia, New Zealand and nearby islands. Common names include poison rock fern and mulga fern.
blue trumpet
Brunoniella australis, the blue trumpet or blue yam, is a plant native of Australia. A widespread herbaceous plant, found in moist areas of eucalyptus woodland and forest, particularly on sloping ground. It is a small plant between 2–30 cm (0.8–10 in) tall.
gomphrena weed
Gomphrena celosioides Mart. ('gomphos'=club, 'celosioides'=resembling Celosia) is a herbaceous perennial belonging to the family Amaranthaceae and a cosmopolitan pioneer plant of disturbed areas, and one of 51 species in the genus.
balloon cottonbush
Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls, nailhead, or swan plant, is a species of milkweed. The plant is native to southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized. It is often used as an ornamental plant. The name "balloonplant" is an allusion to the swelling bladder-like follicles ...more ↓
cobbler's pegs
Bidens pilosa is a species of flowering plant in the aster family. It is native to the Americas but it is known widely as an introduced species of other regions, including Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. It is a tall branched weed with thin yellow flowers that develop into a cluster of barbed seeds. Its many common names include black-jack, ...more ↓
coughbush
Cassinia laevis, commonly known as cough bush or dead finish, is a plant native to eastern Australia.
yellow buttons
Chyrsocephalum apiculatum, known by the common names common everlasting and yellow buttons, is a perennial herb native to southern Australia. It is a member of the Asteraceae, the daisy family. It grows in sunny locations on light, well-drained soil in grassy areas. It is an important food plant for the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi), a ...more ↓
ironweed
Cyanthillium cinereum (also known as little ironweed and poovamkurunnila in malayalam) is a species of perennial plants in the sunflower family. The species is native to tropical Africa and to tropical Asia (India, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.) and has become naturalized in Australia, Mesoamerica, tropical South America, the West Indies, and the US State of ...more ↓
lilac tasselflower
Emilia sonchifolia, also known as lilac tasselflower or cupid's shaving brush is tropical flowering species of tasselflower and in the sunflower family. It is widespread in tropical regions around the world, apparently native to Asia (China, India, Southeast Asia, etc.) and naturalized in Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands.
applebush
Pterocaulon sphacelatum is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It is found only in Australia, where it is known as "Fruit-salad Plant" or "Applebush", as well as other Aboriginal names.
stinking roger
Tagetes minuta has numerous local names that vary by region, most commonly found in the literature as; chinchilla, chiquilla, chilca, zuico, suico, or the Spanish term anisillo. Other names include muster John Henry, southern marigold, Khakibos , stinking roger wild marigold, or black mint, is a tall upright marigold ...more ↓
common prickly pear
Opuntia stricta is a large sized species of cactus that is endemic in the subtropical and tropical coastal areas of the Americas and the Caribbean. Common names include erect prickly pear and nopal estricto (Spanish). It is an erect or sprawling shrub up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in height, producing lemon yellow flowers in the spring and summer, followed by purplish-red ...more ↓
white root
Pratia purpurascens, commonly known as white root, is a small herbaceous scrambling herb of eastern Australia. reaching 15 cm (6 in) high, it grows in damp, sheltered areas. It was initially described by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown as Lobelia purpurascens.
small-flowered bluebell
Wahlenbergia gracilis (common name Australian bluebell) is an Asian wildflower from the Campanulaceae family. It also grows on western Pacific Ocean islands.
bull oak
Allocasuarina luehmannii (buloke or bull-oak) is a species of ironwood tree native to Australia and its wood is the hardest commercially available.
orange bark
Maytenus bilocularis, commonly known as orangebark, is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It grows to 10 metres high and has leaves with toothed edges that are 3 to 9 cm long and 1.3 to 3 cm wide and elliptic, ovate or obovate in shape.
kidney weed
Dichondra repens is a small, prostrate, herbaceous plant native to New Zealand and many parts of Australia. It is occasionally known as kidney weed in Australia and as Mercury Bay weed in New Zealand. Di (Latin) = two; chondros (Greek) = seed; repens (Latin) = creeping / crawling. Most commonly called dichondra in Australia.
tropical speedwell
Evolvulus alsinoides, the slender dwarf morning-glory, is flowering plant from the family Convolvulaceae. It has a natural pantropical distribution encompassing tropical and warm-temperate regions of Australasia, Indomalaya, Polynesia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. The species inhabits a wide range of habitats, from marshland and wet forests to deserts. A number of ...more ↓
streaked rattlepod
Crotalaria pallida (syn. Crotalaria mucronata Desc, Crotalaria striata DC, Crotalaria falcata VAHL ex DC, Crotalaria brownei DC.,Crotalaria fertilis Delile,Crotalaria hookeri Arn.,Crotalaria pisiformis Guill. & Perr.,Crotalaria siamica F.N.Williams,Crotalaria striata var. acutifolia ...more ↓
hairy trefoil
Desmodium rhytidophyllum is a small twining herb or trailing shrub in the family Fabaceae. A plant with rusty or felty hairs on all parts, found in eastern and northern Australia. Attractive pink flowers may form at any time of the year. The specific epithet rhytidophyllum is derived from Greek, describing the wrinkled leaves.
Desmodium triflorum
Grona triflora, known as creeping tick trefoil or three-flower beggarweed, is a plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a global species native to tropical regions and introduced to subtropical regions including the southern United States.
slender tick trefoil
Desmodium varians is a small climbing or prostrate herb in the family Fabaceae. A widepread species but not commonly seen, found in eastern Australia. Attractive pink flowers may form at any time of the year. The specific epithet varians is derived from Latin, referring to the variable habit and leaves.
no known common name
Galactia tenuiflora is a twining or trailing vine belonging to the family Fabaceae. This pantropical species is found in northern Australia between the Kimberley region and North Queensland. It is found in a variety of habitats but prefers Eucalypt woodland.
twining glycine
Glycine clandestina, commonly known as twining glycine or love creeper, is a scrambling plant in the bean family, found in Australia.
glycine pea
Glycine tabacina, commonly known as variable glycine, is a scrambling plant in the bean family found in Australia. It grows in areas of high rainfall, ranging to semi-arid areas. The leaves are in threes, 7 cm long by 2 cm wide. Bluish to purple flowers form on racemes in the warmer months. The bean pod is up to 3 cm long. The habitat is among grasses, often in open ...more ↓
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 ↓
dogwood
Jacksonia scoparia, commonly known as dogwood (from its strong odour when burning), is a native species of a pea-flowered, greyish, leafless, broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south east of Queensland, Australia and eastern New South Wales.
siratro
Macroptilium atropurpureum, commonly referred to as purple bush-bean, or siratro is a perennial legume recognized by its climbing dense green vines and deep purple flowers. The plant is indigenous to the tropical and subtropical regions of North, Central and South America, as far north as Texas in the USA and as far south as Peru and Brazil, but it can be found in ...more ↓
rhyncho
Rhynchosia minima is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names least snout-bean, burn-mouth-vine, and jumby-bean. It can be found on every continent. It is naturalized in Hawaii.
native coleus
Coleus australis, synonyms Plectranthus australis and Plectranthus parviflorus, known as little spurflower or cockspur flower, is a shrub, occurring in Hawaii, Polynesia and Australia. Non aromatic, between 10 and 70 cm high. The habitat is shady moist areas, including eucalyptus forest and rainforest. A widespread species, in rocky ...more ↓
native mint
Mentha diemenica is known by the common name of slender mint. The species is named after Van Diemen's Land, which is now called Tasmania. It is a mint species within the genus Mentha, native not only to Tasmania but also to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
cockatoo apple
Planchonia careya is a tree species in the family Lecythidaceae. Common names include cocky apple, cockatoo apple and billygoat plum. It produces an edible fruit which tastes like quince. Indigenous Australians use the bark and leaves in medications. The bark and roots were also used as a fish poison. It should not be confused with Terminalia ...more ↓
Paddy's lucerne
Sida rhombifolia (arrowleaf sida) ( Sanskrit : atibalā अतिबला ) is a perennial or sometimes annual plant in the Family Malvaceae, native to the New World tropics and subtropics. Other common names include rhombus-leaved sida, Paddy's lucerne, jelly leaf, and also somewhat confusingly as Cuban jute, Queensland-hemp, and Indian hemp ...more ↓
Blake's wattle
Acacia blakei, commonly known as Blake's wattle or Wollomombi wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to north eastern Australia.
black wattle
Acacia concurrens, commonly known as curracabah or black wattle, is a shrub native to Queensland in eastern Australia.
fern-leaved wattle
Acacia glaucocarpa, commonly known as the hickory wattle and the feathery wattle, is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia.
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.
Maiden's wattle
Acacia maidenii, also known as Maiden's wattle, is a tree native to Australia (New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria). It has been introduced into India, (Tamil Nadu) and Argentina, and it grows on plantations in South Africa.
sandpaper fig
Ficus opposita is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.Other common names include sweet sandpaper fig, sweet fig and the ambiguous "figwood" and "watery fig".
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.
broad-leaved apple
Angophora subvelutina, known as the broad-leaved apple, is a common woodland and forest tree of eastern Australia. Usually seen on river flats between 12 and 20 metres tall, though exceptional specimens exceed 35 metres tall. One of the habitats west of Sydney is on poorly drained alluvial flats near the Hawkesbury/Nepean river system. The explorer Allan Cunningham ...more ↓
Clarkson's bloodwood
Corymbia clarksoniana, commonly known as Clarkson's bloodwood or the Grey bloodwood, is a bloodwood native to Queensland
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.
Moreton Bay ash
Corymbia tessellaris (syn. Eucalyptus tessellaris), the carbeen, Moreton Bay ash, black butt, is a Ghost gum tree ranging from small to 35 m. tall, forming a lignotuber. Bark rough on lower 1–4 m of trunk, tessellated, dark grey to black, abruptly changing to white-cream smooth bark above that is sometimes powdery. Name from Latin: tessellaris ...more ↓
narrow-leaved ironbark
Eucalyptus crebra, commonly known as the narrow-leaved ironbark or narrowleaf red ironbark, is a type of Ironbark tree native to eastern Australia. A member of the large genus Eucalyptus, this tree is in the Myrtaceae family and can grow to a large spreading tree up to 35 m (115 ft) high. It is an important source of nectar in the honey industry and its ...more ↓
silver-leaved ironbark
Eucalyptus melanophloia, commonly known as Silver-leaved Ironbark, is a species of Eucalyptus which is native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It is a tall tree, growing up to 20 metres in height.
gum-topped box
Eucalyptus moluccana, commonly known as the grey box or gum-topped box, is a medium-sized to occasionally tall tree with rough, persistent bark on the lower trunk, shedding above to leave a smooth whitish or light grey, sometimes shiny surface; hence the original name Eucalyptus hemiphloia, from the Ancient Greek hemi- "half", -phloia or phloos ...more ↓
blue gum
Eucalyptus tereticornis is a species of tree native to eastern Australia. E. tereticornis has several common names, including forest red gum, blue gum, flooded gum, grey gum, mountain gum, Queensland blue gum, red gum, bastard box, red ironbark, red irongum and slaty gum.
swamp mahogany
Lophostemon suaveolens is a tree species, also known as swamp mahogany, swamp box or swamp turpentine, of the botanical family Myrtaceae.
yellow wood sorrell
Oxalis corniculata, the creeping woodsorrel, also called procumbent yellow sorrel or sleeping beauty, resembles the common yellow woodsorrel, Oxalis stricta. It is a somewhat delicate-appearing, low-growing, herbaceous plant in the family Oxalidaceae. It has a narrow, creeping stem that readily roots at the nodes. The trifoliate leaves are subdivided ...more ↓
native passionfruit
Passiflora aurantia, the orange-petaled passion flower, is a species in the Passifloraceae family which produces inedible fruit. It is native to New Caledonia and Australia.
stinking passion flower
Passiflora foetida (common names: wild maracuja, bush passion fruit, marya-marya, wild water lemon, stinking passionflower, love-in-a-mist or running pop) is a species of passion flower that is native to the southwestern United States (southern Texas and Arizona), Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and much of South America. ...more ↓
coffee bush
Breynia oblongifolia, commonly known as coffee bush, grows naturally in Australia and New Guinea as shrubs up to 3 m (10 ft) in height. The species produces alternate, ovate leaves 20–30 mm (0.8–1.2 in) long. Small, green flowers are produced in spring and summer, and these are followed by orange or pink berries about 6 mm (0.24 in) diameter that turn black when fully ...more ↓
quinine tree
Petalostigma pubescens, known as the quinine bush is a rainforest tree native to Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Western Australia. It was first described by the botanist Karel Domin in 1927.
trailing speedwell
Veronica plebeia, commonly known as creeping- or trailing speedwell, is a plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae native to Australia and New Zealand.
swamp dock
Rumex brownii, the hooked dock, Browne's dock or swamp dock, is a leafy perennial herb native to Australia, and is widespread and grows in disturbed sites. Introduced weed in Pacific Islands, England, Japan and New Zealand.
coastal banksia
Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as coast banksia, is a species of tree that grows along the east coast of Australia. One of the most widely distributed Banksia species, it occurs between Victoria and Central Queensland in a broad range of habitats, from coastal dunes to mountains. It is highly variable in form, but is most often encountered as a tree up to 25 ...more ↓
soap tree
Alphitonia excelsa, commonly known as the red ash or soap tree, is a species of tree in the family Rhamnaceae. It is endemic to Australia, being found in New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and the northeastern tip of Western Australia. It is used in bush regeneration as a pioneer species and for amenity planting.
broad-leaf native raspberry
Rubus moluccanus, Molucca bramble or broad-leaf bramble or জেতুলি পকা (Assamese), is a scrambling shrub or climber, native to moist eucalyptus forest and rainforest of eastern Australia, distributed from Queensland to Victoria and North-East Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Molucca bramble leaves are simple with 3-5 lobes, ...more ↓
pomax
Pomax is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Pomax umbellata, found in Australia, is the sole species of the genus. The genus was created in 1830, by the Swiss taxonomist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, published in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Pomax umbellata was described in 1834.
sweet suzie
Psydrax odorata, known as alaheʻe in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It is native to the Pacific Islands, New Guinea and Australia.
native cherry
Exocarpos cupressiformis Labill, with common names that include native cherry, cherry ballart, and cypress cherry, belongs to the sandalwood family of plants. It is a species endemic to Australia. Occasionally the generic name is spelt "Exocarpus". This form of the generic name was probably the original spelling, but it appears to be mostly no longer in ...more ↓
creeping boobiala
Eremophila debilis, commonly known as winter apple or amulla, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to an area extending from north Queensland to near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with lance-shaped leaves and white, rarely deep mauve flowers.
glossy nightshade
Solanum americanum, commonly known as American black nightshade, small-flowered nightshade or glossy nightshade is a herbaceous flowering plant of wide though uncertain native range. The certain native range encompasses the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Melanesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
