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During the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Turpentine-Ironbark Forests which covered Sydney were cut down for their valuable timber. Annandale house was constructed almost entirely of local Cedar *. The remaining local provenance vegetation succommed to farming, possibly mining clay, for pipes, domestic ware and bricks, sandstone quarries for construction, and eventually sub-division and residential development.
The Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery, works to reintroduce Local Provenance species. Local Provenance species are those which have adapted to a particular area's climate, rainfall patterns, salt water innundation, sunlight, soil, birds, animals and insects. The purpose built nursery located in Wisdom Street Annandale, features recycled ironbark timber from the old Pyrmont Bridge, perhaps from an ironbark tree that grew in Annandale.
Grasses | |||||
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| 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 | |||