Native Wildflower Meadow

This area has been planted with native wildflowers and will provide food for small birds and bees. The plants we have included in our wildflower meadow are: 

Chocolate Lily   Dichopogon strictus   Chocolate scented mauve flowers and an edible tuber. 
Blue Devil   Eryngium ovinum Spiny leaves with blue flower, a perennial herb. 
Bidgee Widgee   Acaena novae-zelandiae Perennial creeping herb with bright green notched leaves and balls of greenish white flowers. 
Sticky Everlasting   Xerochrysum viscosum    Long lasting yellow papery flowers. 
Common Everlasting   Chrysocephalum apiculatum Cottony, grey-green leaves with golden yellow flowers on tips. 
Kangaroo Grass   Themeda triandra Tussock grass with arching reddish stems and clustered seed heads. 
Cut Leaf Daisy Brachyscome multifida Mauve, pink and white flowers, fine leaf groundcover. 
Sticky Hop Bush   Dodonea viscose Leathery, sticky leaves with red fruit. Dodonaeas are known as hop bush as they were used to make beer by early European Australians. They have also been traditionally used to treat toothache, cuts and stingray stings. 
Lemon Beauty Heads   Calocephalus citreus Tufts of silver grey leaves with small bright yellow flowers. 
Yellow Bulbine Lily Bulbina bulbosa Erect green channelled leaves and clusters of yellow star like flowers in spring and summer. 
Billy Buttons Pycnosorus globosus A clump of silvery grey woolly leaves with golden globe flowers on tall and stout stalks.  

Trees included in this planting area: 

Silver Wattles Acacia dealbata Grey-green foliage with pale yellow flower clusters 

The plants we consider to be weeds: 

Salsify   Tragopogon porrifolius Considered a delicacy in Europe and cultivated for its ornamental bright pink flower and edible root.   
Vetch   Vicia Scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, with small purple flowers, cultivated as a fodder crop. 

For more information about how you can become a valued volunteer contact us at cluneslandcare@gmail.com 

We acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung as the traditional
custodians of these lands and waterways.