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LOCAL PLANTS IN FLOWER - August 2010 Ros Cornish, Widgiewa RoadThe following list is what should be flowering, based on lists from the previous 11 years. Don’t forget to check out the website to see photos of many of these plants – and some not described here - www.flickr.com/photos/carwoolaplants/ WHITE/CREAM FLOWERSAcacia genistifolia (Early Wattle) – medium shrub with long dark-green needle-like foliage and cream pom-pom flowers. Used to be on Kings Highway on the approach to Queanbeyan, particularly in the Carwoola industrial subdivision but mostly gone now, also in Cuumbeun Nature Reserve. Acacia gunnii (Ploughshare Wattle) – a low growing shrub with prickly, triangular-shaped leaves and pale flowers.
Brachyloma daphnoides (Daphne Heath) - an upright, branched, small shrub with oval leaves; buds are pink opening to small, white, tubular flowers with a strong sweet perfume. It is common in woodland and dry forest habitats. Cryptandra amara (Bitter Cryptandra) – most local plants seem to be var longiflora. Low, spindly shrub with small leaves, white tube-flowers less than 6mm long, clustered along the branches. Leucopogon attenuatus – small shrub with purplish foliage and small, white, densely furry flowers in rows along the branches. Cuumbeun Nature Reserve and possibly on some properties on Wanna Wanna Road.
Melichrus urceolatus (Urn Heath) - small (to about 60cm) shrub with cream, tube flowers and prickly green leaves; widespread in open woodland and grassland; Cuumbeun Nature Reserve. Acacia baileyana (Cootamundra Wattle) – probably introduced to this area but has become naturalised in some places – large bushy shrub, fern-like grey-green foliage, bright yellow pom-pom flowers. On Kings Highway (southern side) just before Captains Flat Road. Acacia dealbata (Silver Wattle) - tall shrub/small tree with golden-yellow sprays of pom-pom flowers, silvery fern-like foliage. It is the most abundant wattle in the area and is common along the roadsides. The yellow-tailed black cockatoos tear bark and wood away to get at grubs in the trunk. Acacia rubida (Redstem Wattle) – large shrub/small tree; large single veined phyllodes to 20cm long, often retains some bipinnate juvenile foliage; flower heads globular and golden in clusters. Many plants along the Captains Flat Road, particularly from Powell Drive to the Kings Highway and from Widgiewa Road to Briars Sharrow Road.
Hardenbergia violacea (False Sarsparilla) – prostrate ground cover/scrambler with sprays of purple pea flowers, dark green lance-shaped leaves.. Usually a good display on Kings Highway from the Ridgeway into Queanbeyan. Hovea heterophylla (formerly referred to by me as H. linearis) – small plant with purple pea flowers along erect stems with dark green leaves, often growing in among taller shrubs or tussock for protection. Dark brown/black rounded seed pods. Widespread in woodland but hardly noticeable until it flowers. Grevillea
lanigera (Woolly Grevillea) - prostrate to low
shrub with cream and red “spider” flowers, grey-green hairy foliage. Uncommon
but is on at least two properties on the western side of Widgiewa Road and also
on the Queanbeyan escarpment/Cuumbeun Nature Reserve. GREEN, INCONSPICUOUS or THINGS THAT DON’T LOOK LIKE FLOWERS Clematis microphylla (Old Man’s Beard, Goat’s Beard) – a vigorous creeper/climber with divided (2-3 times) leaves with small leaflets. The flowers are greenish-cream and the females produce “the beard” - the fluffy seeds. |
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