The following list of Indigenous plants are found in the Shire of Nillumbik and/or the City of Banyule. Students have been researching these plants, finding out how to grow them.

All of the plants listed below are currently within our school. Some were planted in garden beds and some are growing as seedlings in the greenhouse.

Click on any of the plants listed below to find out more about them.
Lilies
Low Shrubs (-2m)
Acacia verticillata - Prickly Moses
Astroloma humifusum - Cranberry Heath
Carpobrotus modestus - Pigface
 
 
Grasses, Sedges and Rushes
Medium Shrubs (1-5m)
Austrostripa mollis - Soft Spear Grass
Carex appressa - Tall Sedge
Carex fasciculata - Tassel Sedge
Carex truncata - Common Sedge
Juncus pallidus - Pale Rush
Microlaena stipoides - Weeping Grass
 
 
 
 
 
Climbers and Twiners
Tall Shrubs (2-10m)
 
Hymenanthera dentata - Tree Violet
Groundcovers and Herbs
 
Trees
Bracteantha viscose – Sticky Everlasting
Chrysocephalum semipapposum - Clustered Everlasting
Eidadia Hastata - Berry Saltbush
Eucalyptus melliodora - Yellow Box
Helichrysum rutidoepis - Pale everlasting
 
Mentha australis - River Mint
 
Aquatic and Semi Aquatic
Lythrum salicaria - Purple Loosestrife
Marsilea drummondii - Nardoo
Myriophyllum crispatum - Water Milfoil

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