Pink Swamp Heath
| SPRENGELIA INCARNATA
Epacridaceae Pink Swamp Heath
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| Pricky shrub to 80cm, occasionally to 2m tall,
with stiff erect branches, older stems smooth reddish brown without leaf
scars. Leaves hard, alternate, lanceolate with sheathing base completely surrounding
the stem, blade curved back and tapering to a long sharp point. Flowers solitary terminal, on short shoots and lateral branches. 5 sepals, greenish pink or white. 5 petals, pink or white, very narrow and pointed, widely spreading. 5 stamens spreading or forming tube in centre of flower, style long. Fruit a dry capsule. Flowering October-February. Found in peaty heaths and other wet places. Tas, Vic, SW, SA Information courtesy of the Launceston Field Naturalists Club |
| CYPERUS GUNNII
Cyperaceae Flecked flatsedge Related to C. papyrus from which the ancient Egyptians made papyrus, forerunner of paper. A densely tufted plant to 1 m growing on marshlands and along river banks. Leaves: broad, flattened and folded, tapering to a long sharp point. Numerous flowers, clustered into compound heads on stout triangular stems and maturing to reddish brown colour. |
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| BALOSKION TETRAPHYLLUM ssp Tetraphyllum
Restionaceae Tassel Cord-rush This erect plant has creeping roots forming thick stands in swamps. The stems are numerous and stiffly erect, cylindrical, bluish green. Leaves are short leathery sheaths closely stem clasping at the base, but smaller and light brown with spreading tips up the stem at nodes giving a fine plume-like appearance. Male and female flower clusters are chestnut brown at the end of stems. Useful for pond margins or can be grown in bowl shaped containers but must be kept moist. Grows in Tas. Vic. NSW Qld. SA |
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| OZOTHAMNUS FERRUGINEUS
Asteraceae Tree Everlastingbush 
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Branched aromatic shrub or small tree to 5 m. Branches ribbed. Leaves linear-lanceolate to 5 cm long, flat, upper surface dark green, lower surface grey or yellowish white tomentose (a dense covering of matted hairs), except on midrib and margins. Flower heads numerous in large branched panicles, terminal on main and lateral branches. Individual flower heads small, about 3 mm long, with about 6 florets, outer bracts brownish, inner bracts white tipped. Pappus bristles 3 mm long with thickened tips. Flowering November-February. Widespread in most lowland gullies, along creeks and wet margins of forests. Tas, Vic, NSW, SA Information courtesy of Launceston Field Naturalists Club |
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