Seeds for Change - Local Plant Fact Sheets

More than 90 local plant fact sheets have been created for the metro Adelaide area as part of the Seeds for Change project.

Find a local native plant to suit your purpose!
 
These fact sheets describe the basic info (size, flowers etc.) of local native plants, including planting and care info, how to propogate and the fauna they support.
 

Seeds for Change is a Junction Community Centre initiative.  Port Environment Centre is assisting by helping to share their work with the community.

Let’s see more of our endemic species growing in verges, gardens and parks to provide habitat for local fauna.

Scroll down for the full plant list and links all the fact sheets! Free to dowload, use and share.

Or have a look at the image gallery on the Seeds for Change facebook page.

Here's an example - but there's 90+ more.

Seeds for Change - an Ottoway project

The Junction Community Centre (Ottoway) created Seeds for Change – an initiaive to help residents affordably reduce heat on their streets and homes while increasing local biodiversity and growing community connections.

Approx 2,500 plants were propagated and shared by the Seeds for Change project.

Seeds for Change reached out to Ottoway residents, schools, faith communities, businesses and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield to participate in a series of free propagation and planting events.  Endemic (local), drought tolerant species were planted in residents gardens, verges and parklands.

All plantings were accompanied by Seeds for Change signs with a QR code to the 100 fact sheets on the Seeds for Change Facebook page.

Seeds for Change Ottoway – a Junction Community Centre initiative – is funded by Green Adelaide and supported by the people of Ottoway, the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the Honorable Susan Close, Member for Port Adelaide. The project team thanks all those who have supported this community learning and sharing initiative.

This project shows that we can create habitat whilst enriching our environment, community and lives.

Seeds for Change enquiries can be directed to Deidre Knight  – email: deidrefknight@gmail.com

Access all the plant fact sheets here - click to view, download or print.

Groundcovers

Acacia cupularis – Coastal Umbrella Bush

Acacia ligulata – Umbrella Wattle (prostate)

Arthropodium fimbriatum – Nodding Chocolate Lily

Asteridea athrixioides – Wirewort

Atriplex semibaccata – Berry Saltbush

Atriplex suberecta – Lagoon Saltbush

Brunonia australis – Blue Pincushion

Calocephalus citreus – Lemon Beauty Heads

Carpobrotus rossii – Karkalla

Chrysocephalum apiculatum – Common Everlasting

Chrysocephalum semipapposum – Yellow Buttons

Convolvulus remotus – Native Bindweed

Myoporum parvifolium – Creeping Boobialla

Podolepis jaceoides – Showy Copper-wire Daisy

Scaevola albida – Small-fruit Fanflower

Scaevola crassifolia – Coastal Fanflower

Wahlenbergia stricta – Tall Bluebell

Xerochrysum bracteatum – Everlasting Daisy

 

Groundcover / climber

Einadia nutans – Climbing Saltbush

 

Groundcover / creeper

Kennedia prostrata – Running Postman

Kunzea pomifera – Muntries

Grasses, sedges and flaxes

Arthropodium strictum – Chocolate Lily

Austrostipa elegantissima – Elegant Spear Grass

Austrostipa flavescens – Coast Spear Grass

Austrostipa nodosa – Tall Spear Grass

Carex appressa – Tall Sedge

Carex bichenoviana – Notched Sedge

Carex gaudichaudiana – Fen Sedge

Chamaescilla corymbosa – Blue Squill/Blue Stars

Chloris truncata – Windmill Grass

Cymbopogon ambiguus – Scent Grass

Dianella brevicaulis – Short Stem Flax Lily

Dianella revoluta – Black Anther Flax Lily

Ficinia nodosa – Knobby Club Rush

Gahnia filum – Chaffy Saw Sedge

Linum marginale – Native Flax

Lomandra multiflora – Stiff Matt Rush

Microlaena stipoides – Weeping Rice Grass

Poa labillardieri – Common Tussock Grass

Poa poiformis – Coastal Tussock Grass

Rytidosperma caespitosum – Common Wallaby Grass

Rytidosperma fulvum – Wallaby Grass

Themeda triandra – Kangaroo Grass

Walwhalleya proluta – Rigid Panic/Coolah Grass

Low shrubs

Acacia gunnii – Ploughshare Wattle

Coronidium scorpioides – Button Everlasting

Cullen australasicum – Scurf Pea

Enchylaena tomentosa – Ruby Saltbush

Goodenia albiflora – White Goodenia

Leucophyta brownii – Cushion Bush

Lotus australis – Austral Trefoil

Pimelea glauca – Smooth Riceflower

Pultenaea largiflorens – Twiggy Bush-pea

Pultenaea tenufolia – Sand Dune Bush-pea

Rhagodia candolleana – Seaberry Saltbush

Stemodia florulenta – Blue Rod

Vittadinia blackii – Western New Holland Daisy

Vittadinia gracilis – Wooly New Holland Daisy

Wahlenbergia capillaris – Tufted Bluebell

Westringia rigida – Stiff Westringia

 

Low shrub / climber

Hardenbergia violacea – Native Wisteria

Medium shrubs

Acacia acinacea – Gold Dust Wattle

Acacia rupicola – Rock Wattle

Adriana quadripartita – Coastal Bitter Bush

Alyogyne huegelii – Native Hibiscus

Atriplex cinerea – Coast / Grey Saltbush

Atriplex paludosa – Marsh Saltbush

Billardiera cymosa – Sweet Apple Berry

Callistemon rugulosus – Scarlet Bottlebrush

Callistemon sieberi – River Bottlebrush

Calytrix tetragona – Common Fringe Myrtle

Eremophila glabra – Common Emu Bush

Goodenia ovata – Hop Goodenia

Goodenia varia – Sticky Goodenia

Hakea carinata – Erect Hakea

Hakea rugosa – Dwarf Hakea

Hysterobaeckea behrii – Broom Baeckea / Silver Baekea

Leptospermum myrsinoides – Heath Tea Tree

Rhagodia parabolica – Fragrant Saltbush

Senna artemisioides – Grey Cassia

Xanthorrhoea semiplana – Grass Tree

Large shrubs

Acacia notabilis – Notable Wattle

Acacia paradoxa – Kangaroo Thorn Wattle

Leptospermum continentale – Prickly Tea Tree

Small trees

Acacia calamifolia – Wallowa

Acacia ligulata – Umbrella Wattle

Acacia pycnantha – Golden Wattle

Bursaria spinosa – Sweet Bursaria

Santalum acuminatum – Quandong Native Peach

Medium trees

Allocasuarina verticillata – Drooping Sheaoak

Banksia marginata – Silver Banksia

Melaleuca lanceolata – Dryland Tea Tree

Tall trees

Callitris gracilis – Southern Cypress Pine