Bunhybee Grasslands

Linda and Roger's Bunhybee Grasslands - Grasses

This is a page within Roger and Linda's Bunhybee Grasslands Web-Site.

Bunhybee Grasslands is a 49 hectare / 120 acre conservation property 35km south of Braidwood, in southern N.S.W.

You can follow through the internal links, or you may find it easier to use the Site-Map.

Photos of Grasses

These links take you to

the beginning of the collection of shots
the most recent entry
the FOG visit on 9 May 09
the ANPSWW Group visit on 11 November 2009

Information about Grasses

Here is the Species List of grasses on the property.

Here are the References we've used in building up this information.

Below are our photos of grasses on the property.

There are about 40 species of native grasses on the property, but also a dozen exotics. The information in this page is primarily from MP (1.8 p. 7, App. B pp. 37-41, App. D pp. 43-47).

We've defined 'grass' broadly and pragmatically, by including:

sedges and rushes (which we think is fair enough)
clovers and plantains (which we appreciate isn't really right, but we're trying to reduce the length of the Flowering Plants page, because it's so big it's unwieldy!)

In both the dry and wet areas, the dominant grasses are:

Kangaroo Grass (Themeda australis)
Poa Tussock (Poa sieberiana)

In the drier areas, other grasses include:

Purple Wire Grass (Aristida ramosa)
Wallaby Grasses (Austrodanthonia spp.)
Spear Grasses (Austrostipa spp.)
Weeping Grass (Microlaena stipoides)

A couple of clumps of Serrated Tussock (Nasella trichotoma – all too similar to Poa spp., and especially sieberiana!) have been identified in the upper gully to the south of the main ridge.

In the moister areas, other local grasses include:

River Tussock (Poa labillardieri)
Plume Grasses (Dichelachne spp.)
sedges (Carex spp. and Schoenus apagon)
a rush (Juncus sp.)

Other local grasses mentioned in MP (pp. 37-41) are:

Common Wheat-Grass (Elymus scaber)
Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis parvifolia, and trachcarpa)
Mat-Grass (Hemarthria uncinata)
Grass Cushion (Isoetopsis graminifolia)
? (Poa meionectes)

Other exotic grasses mentioned in MP (p. 41) are:

Hair Grass (Aira sp.)
Sweet Vernal-Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)
Shivery Grass (Briza minor)
Soft Brome-Grass (Bromus hordaceus)
Paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum)
Buck's-horn Plantain (Plantago coronopus)
Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)

Photos of Grasses

For larger images, click on the thumbnails below.

Autumn – 20 Apr 2008

First close-up of the grass

Early Winter – 1 Jun 2008


Ridge-grass	Grasses under the middle-block snow-gums

Late Winter – 23 Aug 2008


Grasses, with Acacia gunnii	At the dam wall, looking south	Grass around a Brachyscombe decipiens	Grass beneath snow gums

Spring – 27 Sep 2008


Beneath the snow gums	Beneath the main ridge, looking SW

Spring –– 6 Oct 2008


At the dam, looking north	The drive-way	A lone serrated tussock, in the gully south of the main ridge

Early Summer – 15 Nov 2008


? Small Rush	Yorkshire Fog + Dog	Round Leaves in Poa	New seed-head, Kangaroo grass

Creekline, Poas + View	Poa, Leptorhynchus-squamatus + View	Shivery Grass

Late Summer – 22 Feb 2009


Poa ?labillardieri	Panic(um effusum) grass (in front of the Vittadinia)	Wallaby grass

Autumn – 25 Apr 2009


Grasses 30m inside the gate, looking south	Kangaroo grass, Poa ?lab., and others, above small dam	Buck's-horn Plantain - exotic	Juncus filicaulis (in the foreground, with the brown nodules, not the yellow flower)

Rushes in small dam	Red-Leg Grass (low clump in foreground with c.6 50cm stems)	Austrodanthonia Sp. (Wallaby Grass)	?Eragrostis Sp.

Late Autumn - 9 May 2009 FOG Visit

See also separate listings of Flowers and Trees & Shrubs.


?Plantago varia	Dichelachne Sp. (Plume Grass)	Enneapogon nigricans (Nineawn Grass)	Enneapogon nigricans

Plantago coronopus (Buck's-Horn Plantain)	Luzula densiflora (Woodrush)	Sporobolus creber (Rats' Tail Grass) [New to the list]	Sporobolus creber

Sorghum leiocladum (Native Sorghum) [New to the list]	Plantago ?gaudichaudi / ?hispida	Lomandra longifolia	Lomandra filiformis

Dichelachne sp. (A Plume Grass)	Juncus, medium, in a wet area	Carex gaudichaudeii	Juncus, small, fockeii group

Juncus, small, fockeii group	Lomandra multiflora	Juncus, large, wet area	Dichelachne sp. (Plume Grass)

Dichelachne crinita

Late Winter - 1 August 2009


Suspect Nassella trichotoma (A)	Northern Block, centre of E-W and N-S (A)	Ditto (A)

Suspect Nassella trichotoma (B)	Northern Block, near main water-line (B)	Suspect Nassella trichotoma (C)	Just E. of copse on Echidna Ridge (C)

Early Spring - 22 September 2009


Plantago varia	Plantago varia

Still Early Spring - 7 October 2009


Poa	Presumably Laballardierii?	Close to waterline	Near Upper Fence

Early Summer - 11 November 2009 – ANPSWW Group


An Austrodanthonia ...	... Ditto ...	... Ditto	A Different Austrodanthonia

Lachnagrostis filiformis ...	... Lachnogrostis filiformis	Dichelachne sp. / Plumegrass	Schoenus apogon

?Juncus filicaulis	Lomandra filiformis

Austrodanthonia carphoides ...	... Ditto	Plantago sp.	Plantago sp.

Poa meionectes ...	... Ditto ...	... Ditto ...	... Ditto

Austrostipa ?rudis ...	... Ditto ...	... Ditto

Eleocharis gracilis ...	... Ditto