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This page contains plants which are found in Australia but not indigenous to Victoria. Also included here are foreign plants which are naturalised in many parts of Australia.
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Acacia iteaphylla (Flinders Range Wattle)
A bushy shrub 2-4m high with a weeping habit. Leaves thin and narrow, 5-14cm long and 2.5-8mm wide. Pale yellow scented flowers appear in autumn and winter.
Found in South Australia. Considered an invasive weed outside it home range.
Aptenia cordifolia (Heartleaf iceplant, Baby Sun Rose, Red Apple)
A prostrate, spreading, succulent plant originally from South Africa but which is now naturalised in many parts of Australia. Considered a potential environmental weed in Victoria. Flowers 1-2cm in diameter, bright red when young.
Grevillea shiressii (Blue Grevillea, Mullet Creek Grevillea)
A very rare shrub found only around Gosford in NSW. Grows to 5 metres tall, with dark green leaves. Flowers in winter-spring. The flowers start off as green, becoming bluish-purple and then cream over time, with touches of red.
Attracts birds even though the flowers are usually hidden among the foliage.
Isolepis hystrix (Awned Club-rush)
A small annual plant up to 5cm tall, but often smaller. Involucral bracts spreading and longer than the flower cluster.
Originally from South Africa, but now naturalised in many parts of Australia.
Juncus articulatus (Jointed Rush)
Loosely tufted perennial, culms usually decumbent, up to 50cm tall. Leaves with hollow blades with septa (visible when dried), spread along culm, 1-2mm wide, shorter than stems. Sheath margins of lower leaves end in lobes. Inflorescence of 4-40 discrete clusters, each with 2-13 flowers; primary bract shorter than inflorescence. Tepals have broad green midrib and reddish-brown margins, 2-3mm long. Flowers have 6 stamens, shorter than tepals; protruding pistils are feathery. Capsule dark brown or dark red-brown, longer than tepals, 3-angled, ending abruptly in a distinct mucro. Flowers appear from September to January.
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