Spreading Flax Lily
Dianella revoluta

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Keilor Plains Group

Dianella Revoluta
Spreading Flax Lily

 

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Some Bird-Attracting Plants Indigenous to the Keilor Plains & Rural Fringe

Plant Name

Common Name

Acacia acinacea

Gold-dust wattle

Acacia implexa

Lightwood or Hickory wattle

Acacia mearnsii

Black wattle

Acacia melanoxylon

Sally wattle or Blackwood

Acacia pycnantha

Golden wattle

Acacia retinodes

Wirilda or Swamp wattle

Acacia verticillata

Prickly moses

Banksia marginata

Silver banksia or Honeysuckle

Bursaria spinosa

Blackthorn, Sweet bursaria, Xmas bush in Tas

Callistemon sieberi

River bottlebrush or Alpine bottlebrush

Casuarina verticillata

Drooping sheoak

Correa glabra

Rock correa

Danthonia pallida

Red-anther wallaby-grass

Dodonaea viscosa (ssp. spatulata)

Wedge-leaf hop bush

Einadia nutans

Nodding saltbush

Enchylaena tomentosa

Ruby saltbush, Plum puddings, Barrier saltbush

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

River red gum

Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Yellow Gum

Eucalyptus melliodora

Yellow box

Eucalyptus microcarpa

Grey box

Eucalyptus ovata

Swamp gum

Gahnia filum

Gahnia filum

Grevillea rosmarinifolia

Rosemary grevillea

Hakea sericea

Silky hakea, Needle bush or Bushy needlewood

Hymenanthera dentata

Tree violet

Kennedia prostrata

Running postman or Scarlet runner

Leptospermum lanigerum

Woolly tea-tree (or Silky tea-tree?)

Lomandra longifolia

Spiny-headed mat-rush

Melaleuca ericifolia

Swamp paperbark

Melaleuca lanceolata

Moonah

Poa labillardieri

Common tussock-grass

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo grass

Xanthorrhoea australis

Grass tree or Blackboy

Some Plants Indigenous to the Keilor Plains & Rural Fringe Suitable for Gardens

Acacia acinacea

Acacia implexa

Acacia melanoxylon

Acacia paradoxa

Acacia pycnantha

Acaena novae-zelandiae

Alisma plantago-aquatica

Allocasuarina luehmannii

Allocasuarina verticillata

Arthropodium milleflorum

Arthropodium strictum

Asperula conferta

Atriplex semibaccata

Banksia marginata

Bolboschoenus

Brachyscome basaltica

Brachyscome dentata

Brachyscome multifida

Bracteantha palustris

Bracteantha viscosa

Brunonia australis

Bulbine bulbosa

Bursaria spinosa

Caesia calliantia

Callistemon sieberi

Callitris glaucophylla

Calocephalus citreus

Calocephalus lacteus

Calotis anthemoides

Calotis scapigera

Calytrix tetragona

Carex appressa

Carex bichenoviana

Carex fascicularis

Carex inversa

Carex tasmanica

Carex tereticaulis

Carpobrotus modestus

Cassinia aculeata

Cassinia arcuata

Cassinia longifolia

Cassinia longifolia

Chloris truncata

Chrysocephalum apiculatum

Chrysocephalum semipapposum

Clematis microphylla

Convolvulus erubescens

Correa glabra

Craspedia variablis

Crassula helmsii

Crytandra amara

Danthonia duttoniana

Danthonia racemosa

Danthonia setacea

Dianella longifolia

Dianella revoluta

Dianella revoluta var brevicaulis

Dichantheum sericeum

Dichelacne crinita

Dichondra repens

Dillwynia cinerascens

Dodonea viscosa ssp spatulata

Einadia hastata

Einadia nutans

Eleocharis pallens

Enchylaena tomentosa

Eremophila deserti

Eryngium ovinum

Eucalyptus baueriana

Eucalyptus camalduiensis

Eucalyptus leucoxylon spp connata

Eucalyptus meliodora

Eucalyptus microcarpa

Eucalyptus ovata

Eucalyptus tricarpa

Eucalyptus viminalis

Eutaxia diffusa

Eutaxia microphylla

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Frankenia pauciflora

Gahnia filum

Glycine clandestina

Glycine tabacina

Goodenia gracilis

Goodenia ovata

Goodia lotifolia

Grevillea rosmarinifolia

Gynatrix pulchella

Hakea sericea

Hardenbergia violacea

Helichrysum sp aff rutidolepis

Hymenanthera dentata

Hymenanthera sp aff dentata

Indigofera australis

Isolepis nodosa

Kennedia prostrata

Leptorhynchos squamatus

Leptospermum lanigerum

Leucophyta brownii

Linum marginale

Lobelia pratioides

Lomandra filiformis

Lomandra longifolia

Lythrum salicaria

Marsilea drummondii

Melaleuca ericifolia

Melaleuca lanceolata

Mentha australis

Mentha diemenica

Microlaena stipoides

Microseris lanceolata

Mimulus repens

Minuria leptophylla

Myoporum insulare

Myoporum parvifolium

Myoporum viscosum

Nicotiana suaveolens

Olearia ramulosa

Ozothamnus obcordatus

Pelargonium australe

Pelargonium rodneyanum

Persicaria decipiens

Pimelia glauca

Pimelia humilis

Pimilea curviflora var sericea

Poa labillardieri

Poa morrisii

Poa sieberiana

Podolepis jaceoides

Ptilotus macrocephalus

Ptilotus spathulatus

Pultenea daphnoides

Pultenea pedunculata

Pycnosorus chrysanthes

Ranunculus lappaceus

Rhagodia parabolica

Rhodanthe anthemoides

Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides

Schoenoplectus validus

Scutellaria humilis

Selliera radicans

Senna artemisioides spp filifolia

Solanum lacianatum

Stackhousia monogyna

Stipa elegantissima

Stipa scabra

Stipa semibarbata

Stipa stipoides

Stylidium gramminifolium

Teucrium racemosum

Themeda triandra

Tricoryne elatior

Triglochin procera

Velleia paradoxa

Veronica gracilis

Villarsia reniformis

Viminaria juncea

Viola hederacea

Vittadinia gracilis

Wahlenbergia communis

Wahlenbergia luteola

Wahlenbergia stricta

 

Web page last updated on July 10, 2002.
Comments to Russell & Gill Best

Emblem: Dianella revoluta (Spreading Flax Lily) - Illustration by Anita Barley