Indigenous plants

INDIGENOUS PLANTS

The following plant list has been compiled using plant surveys commissioned by the South Australian Department for Environment and Water. Weeds are not included, as they are largely controlled due to the efforts of the Friends of Hallett Cove Conservation Park.

The list is set out as indicated below:

Species (common name) – conservation status in the Southern Mount Lofty Region (if applicable)

The highest conservation status is endangered, followed by vulnerable, insufficiently known, rare and then uncommon.

Acacia acinacea (wreath wattle)
Acacia cupularis (coast umbrella bush) – rare
Acacia ligulata (umbrella bush)
Acacia longifolia var. sophorae (coastal wattle)
Acacia paradoxa (kangaroo thorn)
Acacia pycnantha (golden wattle)
Acacia spinescens (spiny wattle)
Acacia victoriae (elegant wattle)
Acrotriche patula (shiny ground-berry) – rare
Actinobole uliginosum (flannel cudweed) – uncommon
Adriana quadripartite – female (coast bitter-bush)
Agrostis billardieri var. billardieri (coast blown-grass)
Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. muelleriana (slaty sheoak)
Allocasuarina verticillata – female & male (drooping sheoak)
Alyxia buxifolia (sea box) – rare
Amyema preissii (wire-leaved mistletoe)
Aristida behriana (brush wire-grass) – uncommon
Arthropodium fimbriatum (nodding vanilla-lily)
Arthropodium strictum (vanilla-lily)

Astroloma conostephioides (flame heath)
Atriplex cinerea
female & male (grey saltbush)
Austrodanthonia auriculata
 (lobed wallaby-grass)
Austrodanthonia caespitosa
 (white top)
Austrodanthonia geniculata
 (kneed wallaby-grass)
Austrodanthonia setacea var. setacea
 (small-flower wallaby-grass)
Austrostipa acrociliata
 (graceful spear-grass) – rare
Austrostipa blackii
 (crested spear-grass)
Austrostipa drummundii
 (cottony spear-grass)
Austrostipa elegantissima
 (feather spear-grass) –uncommon
Austrostipa eremophila
 (rusty spear-grass) – uncommon
Austrostipa flavescens
 (spear-grass
Austrostipa mollis
 (soft spear-grass)
Austrostipa multispiculis
 (spear-grass) – rare in SA
Austrostipa nodosa 
(slender spear-grass)
Austrostipa puberula
 (fine-hairy spear-grass) – rare in SA
Austrostipa scabra ssp. falcata
 (slender spear-grass)
Austrostipa semibarbata
 (fibrous spear-grass)

Beyeria lechenaultii (pale turpentine bush)
Billardiera cymosa (sweet apple-berry)
Blennospora drummondii (dwarf button-flower)
Brachyscome lineariloba (hard-head daisy) – vulnerable

Brachyscome perpusilla (tiny daisy)
Bulbine bulbosa (bulbine lily)
Bulbine semibarbata (small leek-lily) – rare
Bursaria spinosa (sweet bursaria)

Caesia calliantha (blue grass-lily)
Caladenia pusilla (tiny caladenia)
Calandrina eremaea (dryland purslane) – uncommon
Callitris gracilis (southern cypress-pine)
Calocephalus citreus (lemon beauty-heads) – rare
Calostemma purpureum (garland lily)
Calytrix tetragona (common fringe-myrtle)
Carpobrotus rossii (native pigface)
Cassytha glabella forma dispar (slender dodder-laurel)
Centrolepis aristata (pointed centrolepis)
Centrolepis polygyna (wiry centrolepis)
Centrolepis strigosa (hairy centrolepis)
Chamaescilla corymbosa var. corymbosa (blue squill)

Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia (annual rock fern)
Chenopodium pumilio (clammy goosefoot)
Chloris truncata (windmill grass)
Chrysocephalum apiculatum (common everlasting)
Chrysocephalum semipapposum (clustered everlasting)
Comesperma volubile (love creeper)
Convolvulus erubescens (Australian bindweed)
Crassula colorata var.acuminata (dense crassula)
Cullen australasica (native scurf-pea)
Cymbopogon ambiguus (lemon-scented grass) – unknown
Cymbopogon obtectus (silky head lemon-grass) – rare
Cyperus gymnocaulos (spiny flat-sedge)
Cyrtostylis robusta (robust gnat-orchid)

Dampiera rosmarinifolia (wild rosemary) – rare
Daucus glochidiatus (native carrot)
Dianella brevicaulis (short-stem flax-lily)
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta (black-anther flax-lily)
Dichanthium sericeum (silky blue-grass) – vulnerable
Dichondra repens (kidney weed)
Disphyma crassifolium ssp. clavellatum (round-leaved pig-face)

Dissocarpus biflorus (two-horn saltbush) – endangered
Distichlis distichophylla (emu-grass)
Dodonaea hexandra (horned hop-bush)
Dodonaea viscosa ssp. spatulata (sticky hop-bush)
Drosera macrantha ssp. planchonii (climbing sundew)
Drosera whittakeri ssp. whittakeri (scented sundew)

Einadia nutans ssp. nutans (climbing saltbush)
Enchylaena tomentosa var. tomentosa 
(ruby saltbush)
Enneapogon nigricans 
(blackheads)
Enteropogon acicularis 
(umbrella grass) – insufficiently known

Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red-gum)
Eucalyptus porosa 
(mallee box)
Eutaxia microphylla var. microphylla 
(common eutaxia)
Exocarpus aphyllus 
(leafless cherry)

Gahnia filum (black grass saw-sedge)
Gahnia lanigera 
(black grass saw-sedge) – rare
Geranium retrorsum
 (common cranes bill)
Geranium solanderi 
(austral geranium)
Glycine rubiginosa
 (twining glycine)
Gnaphalium indutum
 (tiny cud-weed) – rare

Gonocarpus mezianus (broad-leaf raspwort)
Goodenia albiflora 
(white goodenia)
Goodenia amplexans 
(clasping goodenia) – uncommon
Goodenia pinnatifida 
(cut-leaf goodenia) – uncommon
Goodenia pusilliflora
 (native primrose)
Grevillea lavandulacea 
(lavender grivillea)

Hakea rugosa (dwarf hakea)
Hardenbergia violacea (native lilac)
Helichrysum leucopsideum (satin everlasting) – uncommon
Helipterum demissum (dwarf sunray)

Homopholis proluta (rigid panic) – rare
Hydrocotyle callicarpa
 (tiny pennywort)
Hypoxis glabella var. glabella
 (tiny star)

Isolepis marginata (little club-rush)

Isolepis nodosa (knobby club-rush)

Juncus kraussii (sea rush)

Juncus subsecundus (finger rush)

Kennedia prostrata (scarlet runner)

Kunzea pomifera (muntries) – uncommon

Lepidosperma congestum (clustered sword-sedge)
Leucophyta brownii (coast cushion bush)
Leucopogon parviflorus (coastal beard-heath)
Lomandra collina (sand mat-rush) – rare
Lomandra densiflora (soft tussock mat-rush)
Lomandra effusa (scented mat-rush) – rare

Lomandra micrantha ssp. micrantha (small-flower mat-rush)
Lomandra multiflora ssp.dura
 (hard mat-rush)
Lotus australis
 (Australian trefoil) – uncommon
Lycium australe
 (Australian boxthorn) – endangered
Lysiana exocarpa
 (harlequin mistletoe)

Maireana aphylla (cotton bush) – vulnerable
Maireana brevifolia (small-leaved blue-bush)
Maireana enchylaenoides (wingless fissure-plant) – uncommon
Maireana rohrlachii (rohrlach’s blue-bush) – vulnerable
Malva behriana (Australian hollyhock)
Melaleuca lanceolata ssp. lanceolata (moonah or dryland teatree) – uncommon
Microseris lanceolata (yam daisy)

Microtis arenaria (notched onion-orchid)
Millotia tennuifolia
 (soft millotia)
Minuria leptophylla
 (minnie daisy)
Muehlenbeckia gunii
 (coastal climbing lignum)
Myoporum insulare – fruiting
(common boobialla)
Myoporum parvifolium
 (creeping boobialla) – vulnerable
Myoporum viscosum 
(sticky boobialla)

Neurachne alopecuroidea (fox-tail mulga-grass)
Nicotiana maritima (coast tobacco) – rare

Nitraria billardierei (nitre-bush)

Olearia oxillaris (coast daisy-bush)
Olearia ramulosa (twiggy daisy-bush)

Oxalis perennans (native oxalis)

Panicum effusum var. effusum (hairy panic) – insufficiently known
Paspalidium constrictum (knotty-butt paspalidium) – rare
Pelargonium australe (austral storks bill)
Pimelea curviflora var. gracilis (curved rice-flower)
Pimelea flava (yellow rice-flower)
Pimelea glauca (smooth rice-flower)
Pimelea humilis (common rice-flower)
Pimelea micrantha (silky rice-flower)
Pimelea serpyllifolia (thyme rice-flower)
Pittosporum angustifolium var. microcarpa (native apricot) – rare

Plantago gaudichaudii (narrow-leaf plantain)
Plantago varia
 (variable plantain)
Poa poiformis 
(tussock grass)
Pogonolepis muelleriana
 (stiff cup-flower) – rare
Pomaderris oraria
 (coast pomaderris) – uncommon
Portulaca oleracaea
 (munyeroo)
Ptilotus nobilis
 (yellow-tails) – vulnerable
Ptilotus spathulatus formaspathulatus 
(pussy-tails) – rare
Pultenaea tenuifolia
 (narrow-leaf bush pea) – rare

Ranunculus pachycarpus (thick-fruit buttercup)
Rhagodia candolleana ssp. candolleana (seaberry saltbush)

Rhagodia parabolica (fragrant saltbush)

Salsola kali (buckbush)
Santalum acuminatum (quandong) – vulnerable
Scaevola albida (pale fan-flower)
Scaevola crassifolia (cushion fan-flower) – rare
Scaevola liniaris (rough fan-flower) – endangered
Schoenoplectus pungens (spiky club-rush)
Schoenus apogon (common bog-rush)
Scleranthus pungens (prickly knawel)
Sclerolaena diacantha (grey copper-burr) – rare

Senecio glomeratus (annual senecio)
Senecio pinnatifolius 
(variable groundsel)
Senecio quadridentatus
 (cotton senecio)
Sida corrugata
 (corrugated sida) – rare
Sida petrophila
 (rock sida) – unknown
Solanum simile
 (kangaroo apple)
Spinifex hirsutus
 (rolling spinifex)
Sporobolus virginicus
 (salt couch)
Stackhousia monogyna
 (creamy candles)

Tetragonia implexicoma (bower spinach)
Teucrium racemosum (grey germander)
Thelymitra nuda (scented sun-orchid)
Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass)
Threlkeldia diffusa (coast bone-fruit)
Thysanotus baueri (mallee fringe-lily)

Thysanotus patersonii (twining fringe-lily) – endangered
Tricoryne elatior
 (yellow rush-lily)
Triglochin centrocarpum
 (dwarf arrowgrass)
Triglochin striatum
 (streaked arrowgrass)
Typha domingensis
 (narrow-leaf bulrush)

Velleia arguta (toothed velleia) – rare
Vittadinia blackii (narrow-leaf New Holland daisy)
Vittadinia cuneata (fuzzweed)

Vittadinia gracilis (woolly New Holland daisy)
Vittadinia megacephala
 (giant New Holland daisy) – rare

Wahlenbergia gracilenta (annual bluebell)
Wahlenbergia stricta (tall bluebell)
Westringia rigida (stiff westringia) – rare

Wilsonia rotundifolia (round-leaf wilsonia) – vulnerable
Wurmbea dioica
 (early nancy)

Xanthorrhoea semiplana (yacca)

Zygophyllum billardierei (coast twin-leaf)

Zygophyllum confluens (forked twin-leaf) – rare