Native Flora of the Victorian Volcanic Plains Part 1
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Acacia exudans
Acacia exudans, also known as Casterton wattle, is a shrub species that is endemic to Australia. The species was formally described by English botanist John Lindley in 1838 from material collected on Thomas Mitchell's expedition near Casterton, Victoria in 1836. The description was published in Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern ...more ↓
Acacia lineata
Acacia lineata, commonly known as streaked wattle, is a shrub species that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub that grows to between 0.5 and 1.75 metres high and has phyllodes up to 15 mm long and 3 mm wide. The yellow globular flowerheads arise from the leaf axils in groups of 2 or singly.
Actites megalocarpus
Actites is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. It is endemic to Australia and contains only one species, Actites megalocarpa commonly known as the dune thistle, beach thistle or coastal sow thistle.
Althenia bilocularis
Althenia bilocularis is a plant found in both Australia and New Zealand, in fresh to brackish waters. In Australia it is found in all mainland states with the exception of the Northern Territory. In New Zealand it is found on the North, South and Chatham Islands.
Althenia cylindrocarpa
Althenia cylindrocarpa is a plant found in fresh to brackish waters in Australia. This species has been transferred from Lepilaena.
Angular Sea-fig
Carpobrotus glaucescens, commonly known as angular sea-fig or pigface, is a species of flowering plant in the ice plant family. It is a succulent coastal groundcover native to temperate eastern Australia.
Apalochlamys spectabilis
Apalochlamys is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. The sole species in the genus is Apalochlamys spectabilis, commonly known as showy cassinia or fireweed.
Apple Berry
Billardiera scandens, commonly known as Apple Berry or Apple Dumpling, is a small shrub or twining plant of the Pittosporaceae family which occurs in forests in the coastal and tableland areas of all states and territories in Australia, apart from the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It has a silky touch and appearance that becomes more brittle as the ...more ↓
Aristida behriana
Aristida behriana is a native Australian species of grass commonly known as bunch wire grass or brush wire grass. It is a bright green perennial plant forming short, tufted tussocks up to 40 centimetres (16 in) high. Its seeds have three long, radiating awns; it is a member of genus Aristida, grasses known commonly as three-awns. The species favours ...more ↓
Asperula subsimplex
Asperula subsimplex is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1847 and is endemic to Australia.
Austral Bugle
Ajuga australis, commonly known as Austral bugle, is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Eastern Australia. First described by Robert Brown, it is occasionally seen in horticulture.
Australian Blackthorn
Bursaria spinosa is a small tree or shrub in the family Pittosporaceae. The species occurs in mainly in the eastern and southern half of Australia and not in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Reaching 10 m (35 ft) high, it bears fragrant white flowers at any time of year but particularly summer. A common understory shrub of eucalyptus woodland, it aggressively ...more ↓
Australian Tauhinu
Cassinia aculeata, also known as common cassinia, dolly bush or dogwood, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae. The species is native to the states of South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia. It grows to between 1 and 2.5 metres high and has sticky, hair-covered leaves which are 10 to 30 mm long and 1 to 2 mm wide. The creamy-white ...more ↓
Australian brome
Bromus arenarius is a species of brome grass known by the common name Australian brome.
Austrostipa flavescens
Austrostipa flavescens, commonly known as coast spear-grass, is a species of plant in the true grass family. It is native to southern Australia. It grows as a tufted perennial tussock grass, with flat to narrow inrolled leaves, up to about 1.2 m in height. It is found on sandy, sandy loam and limestone soils as well as on dunes.
Austrostipa setacea
Austrostipa setacea, the corkscrew bamboo grass, is found in many areas of inland Australia. This bunchgrass may reach 0.8 metres (2.6 ft) tall. Flowering may occur at any time of the year. This is one of the many plants first published by Robert Brown with the type known as "(J.D.) v.v." Appearing in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in ...more ↓
Bacchus Marsh wattle
Acacia rostriformis, commonly known as Bacchus Marsh wattle, is a plant species that is endemic to Australia. It was first formally described in 2009 in the journal Muelleria.
Banksia integrifolia integrifolia
Banksia integrifolia subsp. integrifolia is a subspecies of Banksia integrifolia.
Banksia spinulosa collina
Banksia spinulosa var. collina is a shrub that grows along the east coast of Australia, in Queensland and New South Wales. Commonly known as Hill Banksia or Golden Candlesticks, it is a taxonomic variety of B. spinulosa (Hairpin Banksia). It is a popular garden plant widely sold in nurseries.
Biddy-biddy
Acaena novae-zelandiae (bidi-bidi, biddy-biddy, bidgee-widgee, or piri-piri-bur) is an ornamental plant native to New Zealand and Australia. It can also be found elsewhere as an introduced species, and is considered a noxious weed in some areas, such as Hawaii and California. The common name bidi-bidi is a corruption of the Māori name for this plant, ...more ↓
Black sheoak
Allocasuarina littoralis, commonly known as black sheoak, black she-oak, or river black-oak, is an endemic medium-sized Australian tree (usually up to 8 metres, but sometimes to 15 metres - coarse shrub in exposed maritime areas). A. littoralis is named for its growth near the coast; this is somewhat misleading, as it will grow well both inland and in ...more ↓
