Flora Template
Acacia derwentiana
Botanical Name: Acacia derwentiana
Commonly Called: Derwent wattle
Botanical Family: Mimosaceae
Grows: 1-3m H x to 3m W
Flowering Season: Late spring/early summer
How and where it grows: The banks of the Derwent River and its lower tributaries, the banks of the Carlton and Prosser Rivers in south east Tasmania
Where it grows: On the bank of the Derwent River beside the Glenora Road, 2km south from Plenty, downstream of the old railway bridge at the cascades; at the confluence of the Derwent and Broad Rivers via Dawson Road, Ouse; on the bank of the Tyenna River, beside the Gordon River Road, west of the Lake Fenton pipeline, Westerway; along the Carlton River at and upstream from the bridge on the Kellevie Road, Kellevie.
Eryngium ovinum
Botanical Name: Eryngium ovinum
Commonly Called: Blue devil
Botanical Family: Apiaceae
Grows: 40-70cm H x 40-80cm W
Foliage: Narrow, elliptical, variable, 1-4cm long on a short stalk, dark green to grey upper surface, densely hairy undersurface with irregularly round-toothed or entire margins.
Flowers: Bright metallic blue spiky heads.
Flowering Season: Summer.
Fruit: A schizocarp (= a dry fruit that splits into single-seeded parts when ripe).
Habitat/distribution: Temperate woodlands and grasslands. Also WA, SA, Vic, NSW.
Where found: A few places, mainly in SE Tasmania: Laggon Flats; Big Green Island, Bass Strait; Tasman Highway, Pontypool; near Boomer Creek, Little Swanport; Jim Bacon Memorial Reserve, Springfield, Moonah; Broadmarsh; Teatree Road, Brighton; Pontville Army Range, Brighton; Black Charlies Opening, Tasman Highway, Runnymede; Fulham Road, Dunalley; some other private properties.
Other notes: This species is listed as vulnerable under the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. From the Listing statement for the species: it is a perennial species, dying down during autumn, emerging in late winter, and flowering in summer. In late winter the plant develops a rosette of narrow, spiny, divided leaves with the flower stems extending and producing a mass of crowded bright blue thistle-like flower heads on rigid branched stems in mid-summer. The terminal flowerheads open first followed by those on the side branches below with each flower lasting several weeks (Ollerenshaw 1981)î. Best in fertile, heavy soils in sunny positions.
Eryngium vesiculosum
Botanical Name: Eryngium vesiculosum
Commonly Called: Prickfoot
Botanical Family: Apiaceae
Grows: 30-60cm W
Foliage: Light green, rigid, sharply pointed, arising from a stem with flattened upper surface and rounded lower surface.
Flowers: Small in oval to rounded heads up to 1cm W, arising from the leaf axil in tight umbels with a very prickly bract from under each flower head. The flowers are white maturing to blue.
Flowering Season: Late spring/summer.
Fruit: A schizocarp.
Habitat/distribution: Widespread and common in moist coastal sand flats. Also SA, Vic, NSW, Q.
Where found: Springlawn Lagoon, Narawntapu National Park; Flinders Island; Dago Plains, Circular Head; Discovery Beach, West Coast; Low Head, George Town; Latrobe; Near Campbell Town, Northern Midlands; Northdown wetlands near Far Lagoon; Musselroe Wind Farm, Cape Portland; Encampment Cove, Maria Island; Two Mile Beach, Bangor, Dunalley; Fulham Road, Dunalley.
Other notes: A compact, perennial, prostrate herb with a blue flowerheads on a prickly plant, in a swampy site. Short lived. Requires regular moisture and full sun. Would make an attractive rockery plant.
Blandfordia punicea
Botanical Name: Blandfordia punicea
Commonly Called: Christmas bells
Botanical Family: Liliaceae
Grows: 50-100cm H
Flowering Season: Late spring/early summer
How and where it grows: Understorey of rocky slopes from sea level to subalpine in south, north-west and west
Where found: Bruny Island, Cradle Mt, Zeehan at the old smelter site, Lake Burbury Queenstown side
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