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plant species

The Organ Pipes National Park is an example of a recreated basalt plain grassland. Some of the species within the park are endangered outright or in danger of becoming locally extinct. An example is Callitris columellaris, the Murray River cypress-pine (sometimes known as Callitris glaucophylla). This species has been significantly affected by European settlement. Some trees in and near the park are thought to be over a hundred years old, and are probably the best protected occurrence of the species south of the Great Dividing Range.

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Key​

RP  Reintroduced and persisting

RN Reintroduced but also occurring naturally in the Park

E    Exotic

Ferns

Necklace Fern

Pacific Azolla RP

Rock Fern

Bristly Cloak-fern

Sickle Fern  

Blanket Fern 

Bracken

Asplenium flabellifolium

Azolla filiculoides

Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia

Cheilanthes distans

Pellaea falcata

Pleurosorus rutifolius

Pteridium esculentum

Gymnosperms

Murray Pine RP

Callitris glaucophylla

Angiosperms - Monocotyledons

Perennial Beard-grass E

Creeping Bent E

Silvery Hair-grass E

Water Plantain 

Cane Wire-grass 

Bearded Oat E

Wild Oat E

Oat E

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Redleg Grass RN

Large Quaking-grass E

Lesser Quaking-grass E

Prairie grass E

Great Brome E

Soft Brome E

Compact Brome E

Bulbine Lily

Windmill Grass RN

Barley-grass E

 

Couch E

Rough Dog's-tail E

Drain Flat-sedge E

Cocksfoot E

Lobed Wallaby-grass

Common Wallaby-grass

Brown-back Wallaby grass RN

Kneed Wallaby-grass 

Velvet Wallaby-grass

Wallaby-grass 

Bristly Wallaby-grass 

Fern GrassE

Pale-anther Flax-lily RN

 

Black-anther Flax-lily RN

Silky Blue-grass RN

Salt Grass 

Perennial Veldt Grass E

Common Spike-rush

Slender Spike-rush

Wheat Grass

Pappus Grass

Love Grass

Fragile Oat E

Yorkshire Fog E

Rigid Panic RN

Nodding Club-rush  

Swamp Club-rush

Sharp Rush E

Rush 

Toad Rush 

Grassy Rush 

Pale Rush  

Rush Duckweed

Finger Rush

Common Duckweed E

Perennial Rye-grass E

Spiny-headed Mat-rush

Weeping Grass 

Fine Spear Grass E

Chilean Needle-grass E

Serrated Tussock E

Australian Millet RP

Coast Barb-grass E

Paspalum E

Canary-grass E

Lesser Canary-grass E

Common Reed

Tussock Grass RN

Annual Beard-grass E

Onion-grass E

Tiny Bristle-grass E

River Club-rush

Common Bog-rush

Buffalo Grass E

Spear Grass RP

Spear Grass

Spear Grass

Kangaroo Grass RN

Water-ribbons

Rye Beetle-grass

Wheat E

Bulrush

Squirrel-tail Fescue E

Tiny Duckweed

Agropogon littoralis

Agrostis stolonifera

Aira caryophyllea

Alisma plantago-aquatica

Aristida ramosa

Avena barbata

Avena fatua

Avena sterilis ssp.
ludoviciana

Bothriochloa macra

Briza maxima

Briza minor

Bromus catharticus

Bromus diandrus

Bromus hordeaceus

Bromus madritensis

Bulbine bulbosa

Chloris truncata

Critesion murinum
ssp. leporinum

Cynodon dactylon

Cynosurus echinatus

Cyperus eragrostis

Dactylis glomerata

Danthonia auriculata

Danthonia caespitosa

Danthonia duttoniana

Danthonia geniculata

Danthonia pilosa

Danthonia racemosa

Danthonia setacea

Desmazeria rigidum

Dianella longifolia var.
longifolia

Dianella revoluta

Dicanthium sericeum

Distichlis distichophylla

Ehrharta calycina

Eleocharis acuta

Eleocharis gracilis

Elymus scabrus

Enneapogon nigricans

Eragrostis brownii

Gaudinia fragilis

Holcus lanatus

Homopholis proluta

Isolepis cernua

Isolepis inundata

Juncus acutus

Juncus amabilis

Juncus bufonius

Juncus caespiticus

Juncus pallidus

Juncus sarophorus

Juncus subsecundus

Lemna minor

Lolium perenne

Lomandra longifolia

Microlaena stipoides

Nassella hyalina

Nassella neesiana

Nassella trichotoma

Panicum decompositum

Parapholis incurva

Paspalum dilatatum

Phalaris aquatica

Phalaris minor

Phragmites australis

Poa labillardieri

Polypogon monspeliensis

Romulea rosea

Rostraria pumila

Schoenoplectus validus

Schoenus apogon

Stenotaphrum secundatum

Stipa gibbosa

Stipa nodosa

Stipa pubinodis

Themeda triandra

Triglochin procera

Tripogon loliiformis

Triticum aestivum

Typha domingensis

Vulpia bromoides

Wolffia australiana

Angiosperms - Dictotyledons

Gold-dust Wattle RN

Silver Wattle RN

Lightwood RN

Black Wattle RN

Blackwood RN

Hedge Wattle RP

Golden Wattle RP

Wirilda RP

Prickly Moses RN

Sheep's-burr RP

Bidgee-widgee 

Drooping She-oak RP

Lesser Joyweed

White Amaranth E

Pimpernel E

Sea Celery

Cape Weed E

Prickly Woodruff 

Aster-weed E

Berry Saltbush RN

Silver Banksia RP

Wild Beet E

Sweet Bursaria RN

River Bottlebrush RN

Lemon Beauty-heads RP

Tufted Burr-daisy RP

Large Bindweed

Fringe-myrtle

Hoary Cress E

Slender Thistle E

Karkalla RN

Saffron Thistle E

Chinese Scrub RP

Shiny Cassinia RP

Centaury E

Small-leaf Goosefoot

 

Sowbane E

Clammy Goosefoot 

Spear Thistle E

Small-leaf Clematis RN

Common Bindweed E

Blushing Bindweed RN

Tall Fleabane E

Rock Correa RN

Common Cotula

Water-buttons E

Golden Billy-buttons RP

Swamp Crassula

Sieber Crassula

Smooth Hawksbeard E

Paddy Melon E

Spanish Artichoke E

Common Thorn-apple E

Kidney-weed 

Grey Parrot-pea RP

Stinkwort E

Wedge-leaf Hop-bush RN


Paterson's Curse E

Saloop RP

Nodding Saltbush RN

Three-cornered Jack E

Barrier Saltbush RN

Variable Willow-herb

 

Glandular Willow-herb E

Hairy Willow-herb 

Turkey-bush RP

Big Heron's-bill E

Blue Heron's-bill

River Redgum RN

Sugar Gum E

Yellow Gum RN

Yellow Box RN

Grey Box RN

Manna Gum RP

Flat Spurge

Petty Spurge

Speading Eutaxia RP

 

Common Eutaxia


Fennel E

Common Fumitory E

Cleavers E

Cut-leaf Crane's-bill E

Crane's-bill RN

Variable Glycine RP

Creeping Cud-weed 

Common Raspwort RP

Goodenia RP

Hop Goodenia RP

Golden-tips RP

Sarsparilla 

Common Everlasting RP

Clustered Everlasting RP

Everlasting RP

 

Chamomile Sunray RN

 

Tree Violet RN

Small St.John's Wort

Cat's-ear E

Austral Indigo RP

Running Postman RP

Austral Hollyhock 

Cress E

Field Cress E

Woolly Tea-tree RN

Native Flax

Angled Lobelia 

African Box-thorn E

Small Loosestrife

Common Bluebush RP

Mallow E

Horehound E

Burr Medic E

Sweet Melilot E

River Mint

Creeping Monkey-flower

Carolina mallow E

Tangled Lignum RP


Coast Boobialla RP

Sticky Boobialla RP

Water Milfoil 

Austral Tobacco

Heraldic Thistle E

Prickly-pear E

Wood-sorrel  

Sowsob E

Austral Stork's-bill

Persicaria E

Hairy Pink E

Red-ink Weed E

Ox-tongue E

Smooth Rice-flower

Slender Rice-flower 

Buck's-horn Plantain E

Ribwort E

Variable Plantain

Prostrate Knotweed E

Jersey Cud-weed


Pussy-tails

Wild Radish E

Weld E

Fragrant Saltbush RP

Sweet Briar E

Blackberry E

Small-leaf Bramble

Sheep Sorrel E

Slender Dock  

Curled Dock E

Dock 

Sea Pearlwort E

Weeping Willow E

Prickly Saltwort

White Elderberry

Creeping Brookweed 

Pepper-tree E

Groundsel  

Fireweed RP

Groundsel RP

Cotton Fireweed RP

Desert Cassia RP

 

Variegated Thistle E

Hedge Mustard E

Kangaroo Apple RN

Apple of Sodom E

Black Nightshade E

Prickly Sow Thistle E

Sow Thistle E

Corn Spurrey E

Leafy Templetonia RP

New Zealand Spinach RP

Salsify E

Narrow-leaf Clover E

Hop Clover E

Strawberry Clover E

Cluster Clover E

Knotted Clover E

Subterraneum Clover E

Furze E

Scrub Nettle

Twiggy Mullein E

Purple-top Verbena E

Common Vetch E

Golden Spray

Blue Periwinkle E

New Holland Daisy RP

Tufted Bluebell RN

Tall Bluebell 

Wingless Bluebush

Twin-leaf 

Acacia acinacea

Acacia dealbata

Acacia implexa

Acacia mearnsii

Acacia melanoxylon

Acacia paradoxa

Acacia pycnantha

Acacia retinodes

Acacia verticillata

Acaena echinata

Acaena nove-zelandiae

Allocasuarina verticillata

Alternanthera denticulata

Amaranthus albus

Anagallis arvensis

Apium prostratum

Arctotheca calendula

Asperula scoparia

Aster subulatus

Atriplex semibaccata

Banksia marginata

Beta vulgaris

Bursaria spinosa

Callistemon sieberi

Calocephalus citreus

Calotis scapigera

Calystegia sepium

Calytrix tetragona

Cardaria draba

Carduus tenuiflorus

Carpobrotus rossii

Carthamus lanatus

Cassinia arcuata

Cassinia longifolia

Centaurium tenuiflorum

Chenopodium desertorum
ssp. microphyllum

Chenopodium murale

Chenopodium pumilio

Cirsium vulgare

Clematis microphylla

Convolvulus arvensis

Convolvulus erubescens

Conyza bonariensis

Correa glabra

Cotula australis

Cotula coronopifolia

Craspedia chrysantha

Crassula helmsii

Crassula sieberana

Crepis capillaris

Cucumis myriocarpus

Cynara cardunculus

Datura stramonium

Dichondra repens

Dillwynia sericea

Dittrichia graveolons

Dodonea viscosa ssp.
cuneata

Echium plantagineum

Einadia hastata

Einadia nutans

Emex australis

Enchylaena tomentosa

Epilobium billardierianum
ssp. cinereum

Epilobium ciliatum

Epilobium hirtigerum

Eremophila deserti

Erodium botrys

Erodium crinitum

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

Eucalyptus cladocalyx

Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Eucalyptus melliodora

Eucalyptus microcarpa

Eucalyptus viminalis

Euphorbia drummondii

Euphorbia peplus

Eutaxia microphylla var.
diffusa

Eutaxia microphylla var.
microphylla

Foeniculum vulgare

Fumaria officinalis

Galium aparine

Geranium dissectum

Geranium retrorsum

Glycine tabacina

Gnaphalium involucratum

Gonocarpus tetragynus

Goodenia gracilis

Goodenia ovata

Goodia lotifolia

Hardenbergia violacea

Helichrysum apiculatum

Helichrysum semipapposum

Helichrysum sp. aff.
rutidolepis

Helipterum
anthemoides

Hymenanthera dentata

Hypericum gramineum

Hypochoeris radicata

Indigofera australis

Kennedia prostrata

Lavatera plebeia

Lepidium africanum

Lepidium campestre

Leptospermum lanigerum

Linum marginale

Lobelia alata

Lycium ferocissimum

Lythrum hyssopifolia

Maireana decalvens

Malva sp.

Marrubium vulgare

Medicago polymorpha

Melilotus indica

Mentha australis

Mimulus repens

Modiola caroliniana

Muehlenbeckia
cunninghamii

Myoporum insulare

Myoporum viscosum

Myriophyllum verrucosum

Nicotiana suaveolens

Onopordum acanthium

Opuntia sp.

Oxalis perennans

Oxalis pes-caprae

Pelargonium australe

Persicaria maculosa

Petrorhagia velutina

Phytolacca octandra

Picris echioides

Pimelea glauca

Pimelea linifolia

Plantago coronopus

Plantago lanceolata

Plantago varia

Polygonum aviculare

Pseudognaphalium
luteoalbum

Ptilotus spathulatus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Reseda luteola

Rhagodia parabolica

Rosa rubiginosa

Rubus fruticosus spp. agg.

Rubus parvifolius

Rumex acetosella spp. agg.

Rumex brownii

Rumex crispus

Rumex sp.

Sagina maritima

Salix babylonica

Salsola kali

Sambucus gaudichaudiana

Samolus repens

Schinus molle

Senecio cunninghamii

Senecio glomeratus

Senecio macrocarpus

Senecio quadridentatus

Senna artemisioides ssp.
filifolia

Silybum marianum

Sisymbrium officinale

Solanum laciniatum

Solanum linnaeanum

Solanum nigrum

Sonchus asper

Sonchus oleraceus

Spergula arvensis

Templetonia stenophylla

Tetragonia tetragonioides

Tragopogon porrifolius

Trifolium angustifolium

Trifolium campestre

Trifolium fragiferum

Trifolium glomeratum

Trifolium striatum

Trifolium subterraneum

Ulex europaeus

Urtica incisa

Verbascum virgatum

Verbena bonariensis

Vicia sativa

Viminaria juncea

Vinca major

Vittadinia sp.

Wahlenbergia communis

Wahlenbergia stricta

Wingless Bluebush

Zygophyllum glaucum

Acknowledgement of Country

The Friends of the Organ Pipes National Park pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and volunteer, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their deep ongoing connection to, and care of, this land. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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