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Forest Mint

Classification: Lamiaceae - Mentha - laxiflora

A common species in mountain gullies in the ACT, where it prefers shady places near water. It is a small plant with weak stems. Leaves are about 2cm long with almost entire margins.

Updated: 16 Feb 2015

Prickly Starwort, Prickly Knawel

Classification: Caryophyllaceae - Stellaria - pungens

This little perennial herb can be either prostrate or ascending and may form loose mats. It has angular stems that are variously hairy or glabrous. Leaves are usually recurved, narrow-lanceolate,

Updated: 14 Feb 2015

Common Cassinia or Dogwood

Classification: Asteraceae - Cassinia - aculeata

This bushy understorey shrub is common in dry forests, particularly in disturbed areas. The narrow leaves are dark green on top and pale below and have a slightly scaly texture,

Updated: 14 Feb 2015

Mount Gason Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - pickardii

Acacia pickardii is a shrub or small tree 3-5 m high. The stipules are spinose and the inflorescence globular. It is distinguished within the A.

Updated: 12 Feb 2015

Shrubby Bluebush

Classification: Chenopodiaceae - Maireana - pyramidata

Shrub or perennial forb to 1.5m tall. Often spiny branches. Leaves succulent, alternating up the stems, 0.2-0.6cm long, flat to flattened cylindrical, hairy.

Updated: 08 Feb 2015

Native Liquorice

Classification: Fabaceae - Glycyrrhiza - acanthocarpa

Erect subshrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous. Leaves 2–8 cm long; leaflets 9–13, linear to elliptic or obovate, 15–20 mm long; 2–8 mm wide, apex shortly mucronate, margins with minute, curved hairs,

Updated: 08 Feb 2015

Black Kangaroo Paw

Classification: Haemodoraceae - Macropidia - fuliginosa

A small perennial herb with erect green-yellow leaves, occurring with a height between 0.2 to 1.8 metres. The leaves are strap-like, between 200 and 500 mm long,

Updated: 07 Feb 2015

Satiny Bluebush or Golden Bluebush

Classification: Chenopodiaceae - Maireana - georgei

Compact rounded shrub to 50cm high, leaves 8-20x1-2mm, fleshy. It is the golden or reddish tinted fruiting body that attracts attention the wing of which is 15-20mm across,

Updated: 03 Feb 2015

Thysanotus patersonii: 'Twining Fringe Lily'

Classification: Asparagaceae - Thysanotus - patersonii subsp. manglesianus

Perennial climber: Roots tuberous: Leaves annual but infrequent: Delicate flowers have three distinctly fringed petals held upon short branches. Flowers and stems dieback to regrow in Winter.

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Fringe Lily

Classification: Asparagaceae - Thysanotus - manglesianus

The stems, up to 1 metre long, twine around vegetation or trail along the ground.

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Pink Fairy Orchid

Classification: Orchidaceae - Caladenia - latifolia

Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Parakeelya

Classification: Portulacaceae - Calandrinia - polyandra

A prostrate annual forbs, with erect flower stems. Leaves are basal, succulent ans are linear or wide in either the upper or lower part, with tapered ends,

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Native Hollyhock

Classification: Malvaceae - Malva - behriana

It has an annual to short-lived perennial life-cycle, and can be grown in cultivation as an annual or biennial. It has a herbaceous to sub-shrubby habit,

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Mangles Kangaroo Paw, red-and-green kangaroo paw

Classification: Haemodoraceae - Anigozanthos - manglesii

Iridescent red and green flowers make Mangles Kangaroo Paw one of Australia's most recognised wildflowers. It is a rhizotomous perennial with long, grey-green linear leaves up to 60 cm long.

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Desert cassia

Classification: Fabaceae - Senna - artemisioides subsp. filifolia

Shrub or tree 1-3m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, composed of 1-4 pairs of narrow cylindrical leaflets, leaflets 2-4cm long, about 1mm wide, hairless. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals.

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Candles

Classification: Celastraceae - Stackhousia - monogyna

Stackhousia monogyna is the most widespread species and can be found in alpine areas and in coastal districts in heath, grassland, woodland and open forest. It has erect,

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Black Kennedia or Black Coral Pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Kennedia - nigricans

Dramatic black and yellow pea flowers make this vigorous climber a really special plant to find in the wild. The dark green leaves have 3 leaflets and are all up about 15cm long - sometimes not all

Updated: 02 Feb 2015

Hakea pandanicarpa subsp. crassifolia

Classification: Proteaceae - Hakea - pandanicarpa subsp.crassifolia

The big golfball sized seed capsules are the striking feature of this Hakea. The leaves of this medium sized shrub are simple, and the white or cream flowers unremarkable.

Updated: 01 Feb 2015

Bluebell

Classification: Campanulaceae - Wahlenbergia - luteola

Perennial forb to 80cm tall. Leaves opposite each other near the base, alternating up the stems higher up. Leaves 0.4-6cm long, 1-4mm wide, linear, hairless to sparsely hairy, margins flat,

Updated: 29 Jan 2015

Bluerod

Classification: Plantaginaceae - Stemodia - florulenta

Faintly scented perennial herbs to > 80 cm high, sometimes suckering, with erect branches, glabrous but rarely for tiny aculeate non-glandular hairs on the branches and leaves,

Updated: 29 Jan 2015

Grey Germander

Classification: Lamiaceae - Teucrium - racemosum

Perennial herb 15–40 cm high, hoary, suckering and forming stands to several meters diam.; branches densely hairy; hairs simple, retrorse, ± appressed, usually wearing off along the ridges.

Updated: 28 Jan 2015

Lignum

Classification: Polygonaceae - Muehlenbeckia - florulenta

A familiar sight across floodplains and wetlands in inland Australia is the multi-stemmed dense and tangled shrub commonly known as Lignum. Plants vary greatly in size,

Updated: 28 Jan 2015