Native Grasses, Sedges & Rushes

This is only a small selection of the diversity of native grasses that we can grow! 

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Austrostipa bigeniculata  'Kneed Spear-Grass'

• Tufted, erect to 1.2m high
• Small, ribbed, leathery leaves
• Hairy seeds with long bristles

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Austrostipa elegantissima  'Feather Spear-Grass'

• Perennial grass with flower stems to 2m
• Distinctive spreading, fluffy seedhead
• Branches covered in long silky hairs

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Bothriochloa macra  'Red-leg Grass'

• Tall reddish perennial to 80cm high
• Slender reddish flowering stems
• Most productive January-February

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Carex appressa  'Tall Sedge' 

• Large, erect tussock to 120cm tall
• Bright green, arching blades
• Flowers in small clusters at ends of angled flowering stems

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Hemarthria uncinata  'Mat Grass'

• Rhizomatous mat-forming, to 80cm tall
• Linear blades, often reddish
• Seasonally wet or waterlogged sites, clay soils

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Imperata cylindrica   'Blady Grass'

• Coarse, erect to 100cm high
• Silky hairs at nodes, long leaf blades
• Flower spikelets covered in copious fine hairs

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Juncus amabilis 'Hollow Rush'

• Spreading or clumped 
• Cylindrical flowering stems (culms)
• Flowers made of six small brown tepals held in clusters at tip of culms

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Lachnagrostis filiformis   'Common Blown-Grass'

• Tufted annual or perennial grass
• Light green flat or folded leaf blades
• Clustered florets on short-lived branched stems

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Lomandra longifolia 'Spiny Headed Matt-Rush'

• Tufted perennial growing to 120cm
• Flat or slightly concave leaves
• Dainty cream-yellow flowers in clusters

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Poa labillardierei  'Common Tussock'

• Large, densely tufted grass tussock
• Rough grey/blue-green foliage
• Small straw-colored flowers on 130cm tall branched stems

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Rytidosperma ceaspitosa   'Common Wallaby Grass'

• ​Tufted perennial grass, flowering stem to 90cm
• Leaf blades flat or rolled, fluffy inflorescences
• Found in most of Victoria; except montane, saline, or densely forested areas 

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Rytidosperma duttonianum    'Brown-Backed Wallaby Grass'

• ​Robust tufted perennial grass, flowering stems to 80cm
• Leaf blades hairless, flat or channelled
• Seasonally inundated habitats with heavy soils, lowland

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Themeda triandra   'Kangaroo Grass'

• Grass tussock to 1m tall
• Linear blade leaves often tinged red
• Triangular shaped flower clusters