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Established 1998
Established 1998
During the 18th and 19th Centuries, forestry and farming eliminated the Turpentine-Ironbark Forests of the Inner West. The Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery collects seeds and cuttings from the closest remaining bushland, to propagate and reintroduce species that would have been endemic (indigenous or local provenance) to the area.
These plants have demonstrated how well they have adapted to the extreme wet and dry weater in Sydney between 1998 and 2008. As you walk around Annandale's public spaces you may now notice: Acacia Pods | Seed Pods | Purple, Mauve, Pink Flowers | White and Cream Flowers | Green Flowers | Fungi | Banksia Marginata.
The reference list of Local Provenance Species, for the Inner West, has been expanded from a list compiled by Catherine Rowland to help reintroduce indigenous species into Sydney's Inner West: Large Trees (> 5m) | Small Trees (< 5m) | Shrubs (0.5 to 2m) | Grasses | Climbers | Herbs | Estuarine | Ferns | References | Bookshop
The Rozelle Bay Nursery does not sell plants and it is difficult to source local provenance plants. However, you can buy them from specialist nurseries including: Cornucopia Nursery, Marrickville Community Nursery and Strathfield Council Native Nursery.
Grasses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin Name | Common Name | Family | Height | Uses | Flower Type |
| Agrostis avenacea | Blown Grass | Poaceae | 0.8 | ||
| Anisopogon avenaceus | Oat Spear Grass | Poaceae | 1 | ||
| Aristida vagans | Wire Grass; Three-awn Spear Grass | Poaceae | 0.4 | purple | |
| Carex breviculmis | Cyperaceae | 0.1 | green | ||
| Carex inversa | sedge | Cyperaceae | 0.5 | ||
| Cymbopogon refractus | Barb-wire Grass | Poaceae | 0.8 | cream | |
| Danthonia sp. | A Wallaby Grass | Poaceae | 0.3 | ground cover | mauve |
| Danthonia tenuior | A Wallaby Grass | Poaceae | 0.3 | mauve | |
| Dichelachne crinita | A Plume Grass | Poaceae | |||
| Dichelachne micrantha | A Plume Grass | Poaceae | 1 | mauve | |
| Dichelachne rara | A Plume Grass | Poaceae | 0.6 | mauve | |
| Digitaria parviflora | Crab Grass | Poaceae | 0.7 | ground cover | brown |
| Echinopogon caespitosus | Tufted Hedgehog Grass | Poaceae | 0.4 | green to brown | |
| Echinopogon ovatus | Forest Hedgehog Grass | Poaceae | 0.4 | green to brown | |
| Entolasia marginata | Margined Panic Grass | Poaceae | 0.6 | green to brown | |
| Entolasia stricta | Wiry Panic Grass | Poaceae | 0.8 | green to brown | |
| Eragrostis brownii | Brown's Love Grass | Poaceae | 0.3 | grey | |
| Imperata cylindrica | Blady Grass | Poaceae | |||
| Juncus kraussii | a Rush | Juncaceae | |||
| Juncus usitatis | Common Rush | Juncaceae | 1 | ||
| Lepidosperma laterale | Cyperaceae | 0.6 | green to brown | ||
| Lepyrodia scariosa | Restionaceae | 0.5 | brown | ||
| Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Mat Rush | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 0.2 | yellow or cream | |
| Lomandra glauca | Pale Mat Rush | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 0.2 | white | |
| Lomandra longifolia | Spiny-headed Mat Rush | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 1 | yellow | |
| Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat Rush | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 0.6 | brown & yellow | |
| Lomandra obliqua | Twisted Mat Rush | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 0.5 | many yellow | |
| Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass; Meadow Rice Grass | Poaceae | 0.3 | ground cover | cream |
| Oplismus imbecilis | Poaceae | 0.2 | ground cover | cream | |
| Oplismenus aemulus | Basket Grass | Poaceae | 0.3 | ||
| Panicum simile | Two-colour Panic Grass | Poaceae | 0.4 | small cream & brown | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | Poaceae | 4 | screen | many cream |
| Ptilanthelium deustum | Cyperaceae | 0.4 | brown or black | ||
| Samolus repens | Creeping Brookweed | Primulaceae | delicate white star flowers | ||
| Sarcocornia quinqueflora | Samphire | Chenopodiaceae | |||
| Schoenu melanostachys | Cyperaceae | 1 | small black | ||
| Schoenus apogon | Fluke Bogrush | Cyperaceae | 0.25 | shiny red-brown panicles | |
| Suaeda australis | Austral Seablite | Chenopodiaceae | |||
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | Aizoaceae | 0.1 | small yellow | |
| Themeda australis | Kangaroo Grass | Poaceae | 1 | ground cover | many mauve |
| Typha orientalis | A Bullrush | Typhaceae | 2 | screen | many brown |
| Xanthorrhoea media | A Grass Tree | Xanthorrhoeaceae | 1 | birds | many cream |
| Zostera capricorni | Eel grass | Zosteraceae | |||