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| Flowering plants of the grasslands. |
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| Digital composite created by Csaba Szamosy for Imagine The Future Inc, 1996, from photographs by Phil Ingamells, Ian McCann and James Ross. |
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| The Blue Devil, Eryngium ovinum, a much-loved grassland native. |
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| Photo by James Ross for Victorian National Parks Association. |
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With the exception of the exotic weed Cynara cardunccus, or artichoke thistle (can you pick it?), all the exquisite flowers in the image to the left are native to the grasslands of Victoria's basalt plain.
Many are now threatened, or, like the Small Golden Moths Orchid, Diuris aff lanceolata, are so endangered that they are on the brink of extinction.
The species included in this composite image are:
Sheep's burr, Acaena echinata;
Common woodruff, Asperula cenferta;
Creeping bossiaea, Bossiaea prostrata;
Blue pincushion, Brunonia australis;
Milkmaids, Burchadia umbellata;
Blue grass-lily, Caesia calliantha;
Yellow button, Chrysocephalum apilculatum;
Small milkwort, Comesperma polycaloides;
Artichoke thistle, Cynara cardunccus;
Purple flax lily, Dianella longifolia;
Purple diuris, Diuris puncata;
Golden moths orchid, Diuris lanceolata;
Tall sundew, Drosera peltata;
Nodding saltbush, Einadia nutans;
Blue devil, Eryngium ovinum;
Puckfoot, Eryngium vesiculosum;
Grassland cranebill, Geranium retrosum;
Spreading goodenia, Goodenia heteromera;
Vaned raspwort, Hallordgis heterophylla;
Poison lobelia, Lobelia pratioides;
Curved rice flower, Pimelea curviflora;
Feather head, Ptilotus macrocephalus;
Pussy tails, Ptilotus spathulatus;
Golden billbuttons, Pyenosarus chrysanthes;
Stylidium graminifolium;
Plain sun-orchid, Thelymitra nuda;
Tufted bluebell, Wahlenbergia communis;
Tall bluebell, Wahlenbergia stricta;
Tiny puckweed, Wurmbea dioica.
All images were contributed by project partner, the Victorian National Parks Association.
How many of these species do you recognise? What are your stories about the wildflowers of Victoria's basalt plain?
Copyright Imagine The Future Inc 2002. Text by Merrill Findlay for ITF.
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