PLANTS A-Ch

Drooping sheoak
Allocasuarina verticillata
Tree with long drooping branches. Grows in woodlands, often as pure groves, as individuals in Eucalypt forests and along the coast.
Flowers in spring.

Dog rose or river rose.
Bauera rubioides
Small, bushy shrub in moist, well drained soils, in sun or light shade.
Flowers appear mainly in spring but may often be seen at other times of the year.

Dwarf Sheoak
Allocasuarina pusilla
Small sprawling untidy shrub to thigh high. Grows in sandy soil in heath.
Flowers in spring.

Sweet Hounds Tongue
Cynoglossum suaveolens
Climbing or trailing plant to knee high. Grows in woodland.
Flowers winter to spring.

Karkalla
Carpobrotus rossii
Thich, fleshy, succulent ground-running plant. Grows along the coasts.
Flowers in spring.

Rough Halgania
Halgania cyanea
Many branched shrub to knee high. Grows in mallee.
Flowers winter to summer.

Inland Pigface
Carpobrotus modestus
Fleshy, succulent ground-running plant. Grows inland in mallee.
Flowers in spring and early summer.

Round-leaved pigface
Disphyma crassifolium
Fleshy ground-hugging plant. Grows mainly along or near the coasts.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Bower Spinach
Tetragonia implexicoma
Untidy plant scambling into nearby shrubs or rocks. Grows along the coast.
Flowers throughout the year.

Australian Hounds Tongue
Cynoglossum australe
Upright plant to thigh high. Grows in woodland.
Flowers winter to spring.

Austral Forget-me-not
Myosotis australis
slender, hairy herb to shin high. Grows in woodland.
Flowers in spring.

Smooth Halgania
Halgania andromedifolia
Shrub to waist high. Grows in mallee.
Flowers in spring.

Angled Lobelia
Lobelia alata
Spreading delicate herb to knee high. Grows near rivers, swamps or ponds.
Flowers in summer.

Tall Bluebell
Wahlenbergia stricta
Herb to knee high. Grows in forest and woodlands.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Blanket fern
Pleurosorus rutifolius
Fronds rarely more than 12cm high with dense whitish hairs.

Fishbone water fern
Blechnum nudum
Short trunk sometimes present, fronds to 1 metre tall.

Small leaved Blue bush
Maireana brevifolia
Shrub to waist high. Grows in semi arid areas and mallee.
Flowers in summer.

Common Maiden Hair Fern
Adiantum aethiopicum
Fronds usually 30cm tall. Occurs in damp clay banks or among rocks.

References used;-
PRESCOTT, A. [1988]. It's Blue with Five Petals. Wildflowers of the Adelaide Region. Openbook publishers, Prospect.
DASHORST, G. and JESSOP, J. [1990]. Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills. Kangaroo Press, Adelaide.
CRONIN, L. Australian Wildflowers Keyguide. [2000] revised edition Envirobook. Annandale NSW.

If you know that I have made any errors identifying any of the plants shown please let me know so I can correct them.
I am not a botanist and am happy to be corrected.
Also, feel free to contribute any of your own photos of plants and their identity. Thanks, Nita

Berry Saltbush
Atriplex semibaccata
Spreading ground plant. Grows in semi arid areas on Adelaide plains.
Flowers mostly in summer.

Crested Goosefoot
Chenopodium pumilio
Soft spreading bright green plant with short white hairs. Grows in pastures and damp areas.
Flowers in summer and autumn.

Goosefoot
Chenopodium desertorum
Spreading ground plant. Grows in mallee.
Flowers mostly in summer.

Goosefoot
Chenopodium glaucum
Soft spreading bright green plant. Grows in smelly muddy ground.
Flowers in summer.

Green Fat Hen
Chenopodium murale
Erect herb to knee high. Smells when crushed. Common.
Flowers all months.

Clammy Goosefoot
Chenopodium cristatum
Soft spreading bright green plant. Widespread in semi arid areas.
Flowers in autumn and early spring.

Lagoon Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta
Spreading shrub to shin or knee high. Grows in mallee and along coast.
Flowers mostly in summer.

Coast Saltbush
Atriplex cinerea
Spreading shrub to shoulder high. Grows on sand dunes very near the sea.
Flowers winter to early summer.

Marsh Saltbush
Atriplex paludosa
Shrub to 1 metre high.
Flowers winter to early summer.

Wingless Blue bush
Maireana enchylaenoides
Slender upright stems to shin high. Grows in mallee and remnants of the Adelaide Plains woodlands.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Fleshy Saltbush
Rhagodia crassifolia
Sprawling Shrub. Grows along the coast.
Flowers in summer.

Mealy Saltbush
Rhagodia parabolica
Upright shrub to head high. Grows in mallee areas.
Flowers in summer.

Seaberry Saltbush
Rhagodia candolleana
Sprawling Shrub. Grows along the coast.
Flowers in summer.

Climbing Salt Bush
Einadia nutans
Scrambling plant with slender stems. Grows in mallee and woodland.
Flowers Most of the year.

Grey Copperburr
Sclerolaena diacantha
Shrub to 30cm tall. Leaves fleshy.

A Samphire
Halosarcia flabelliformis
Woody perrenial to 20cm tall.

Bearded Samphire
Sarcocornia quinqueflora
Succulent ground plant to ankle high. Grows in saline sites.
Flowers in summer.

Thick-headed Samphire
Sarcocornia blackiana
Succulent ground plant to ankle high. Grows in saline sites.
Flowers in summer.

Shrubby Glasswort
Sclerostegia arbuscula
Branched shrub to 2m tall.

Coast Bonefruit
Threlkeldia diffusa
Shrub to shin high. Grows along the coast.
Flowers in summer.

Ruby Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa
Sprawling scrambling shrub to knee high. Widespread in drier areas.
Flowers all months.

Austral Seablite
Suaeda australis
Perrenial shrub to 1m tall. Grows along the coast.

Slaty Sheoak
Allocasuarina muelleriana
Rounded densly branched shrub to shoulder high. Grows in stoney soil in scrub and heath. Widespread.
Flowers in spring.

Sheoak
Allocasuarina paradoxa
Coarse bulky shrub to waist high. Grows in sandy soil in heath.
Flowers in spring.

Small Bull Oak
Allocasuarina striata
Erect shrub to head high. Grows on sandy soil in heath.
Flowers in spring.

Bassia
Sclerolaena uniflora
Sprawling shrub to shin high. Grows near the coast.
Flowers in summer.

Tall Lobelia
Lobelia gibbosa
Upright herb to shin high. Grows in forests in the hills.
Flowers in summer.

Tufted Lobelia
Lobelia rhombifolia
Small slender herb with running stems. Grows on sandy or gravelly soil in heath.
Flowers late spring.

Tufted Bluebell
Wahlenbergia communis
Leaves narrow, smooth, alternating. Common on disturbed sites such as roadways.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Annual Bluebell
Wahlenbergia gracilenta
Herb to shin high. Widespread
Flowers in spring.

Bluebell
Wahlenbergia litticola
Lower leaves narrow, sometimes hairy, alternating. Common. Widespread in woodland.
Flowers in spring.

Bluebell
Wahlenbergia luteola
Tufted herb to shin high. Grows in open areas in woodland.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Bluebell
Wahlenbergia preissii
Herb to shin high. Uncommon.
Flowers in spring.

Tadgells Bluebell
Wahlenbergia multicaulis
Grows in grassy areas of woodlands.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Water Starwort
Callitriche unbonata
Small bright green aquatic plant. Widespread in water and marshy areas.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Soft Water Fern
Blechnum minus
A very widespread fern. Individuals multiply very freely from offsets and build up into a large clump.

Mangrove
Avicennia marina
Stout bushy tree over head high. Grows near Torrens Island and North of Adelaide.
Flowers autumn and winter.

Sea Box
Alyxia buxifolia
Compact much branched shrub to head high.
Grows along the coast or inland in mallee.
Flowers in summer.

Purple Bells
Calostemma purpurem
Stout pink-purple flowering stalk from shin to knee high. Grows in grassy areas of woodland.
Flowers late summer to early autumn.

Yellow Tails
Ptilotus nobilis
Robust upright plant to shin high. Grows on Adelaide Plains, coasts and in semi arid areas.
Flowers in spring.

Lesser Joyweed
Alternanthera denticulata
Herb with ground running stems. Seems to do well in a moist situations.
Flowers mostly summer to autumn.

Long Tails
Ptilotus polystachyus
Annual or perrenial herb to 1.5m tall.
Flowers in spring.

Pussytail
Ptilotus spathulatus
Herb. Cantral basal group of leaves. Stems run along the ground and rise at the ends. Grows in woodland and mallee.
Flowers in winter throught to summer.

Hairy Heads
Ptilotus erubescens
Stems radiating across the ground from a woody centre. Grows in semi arid areas.
Flowers in spring and summer.

Rock Fern
Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia
Frondsto 45cm tall, to 16cm wide.

Annual Fern
Anogramma leptoplylla
Fronds to 10cm tall. Occurs on damp banks among grasses or rocky crevices.