Poaceae Wildflowers

Astrostipa nitida

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:21:00 GMT

Tufted perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.2-0.75 m high. Fl. green, Jul to Dec. Sand, loam, laterite, limestone.
Family: Poaceae Genus: Astrostipa Species: nitida Main Flower Colour: White

Kangaroo Grass

Member - John and Val — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:22:00 GMT

Kangaroo grass is native to Australia and Africa. It is one of the most widespread native grasses in Australia growing in every state and territory, from interior arid regions to the alps and coast. It once dominated tussock grasslands in eastern Australia. Kangaroo grass is a deep rooted perennial grass with a soft, tussock habit. The leaves are long and thin and as they mature, turn from green to red/brown/purple. It can grow to a height of 30-100 cm. Attractive rusty-red seedheads form throughout the summer. Seed heads are usually 30-50 cm long on stems with dark nodes.
Family: Poaceae Genus: Themeda Species: triandra (australis) Main Flower Colour: Other

Sandhill Canegrass

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:22:00 GMT

Robust, dioecious, rhizomatous perennials forming tussocks or hummocks 1.5 m tall, 1 m wide. Culms hard, brittle, up to 8 mm or more in diam., somewhat punctilate, otherwise smooth. Ligule a row of hairs to 1 mm long; blade sparse, stiff, flat, with prominent nerves, disarticulating early at the narrow blade-sheath junction and tapered to a thickened tip. Inflorescence of 2 types: male heads globular, 1–2 cm diam.; female heads also globular, 2.5–3.5 cm diam., the prominent chaffy bracteoles with rigid tips. Spikelets dimorphous, unisexual, slightly dorsally compressed. Male spikelets shortly pedicellate, 6–8 mm long, few in a spike-like panicle, with 2 male florets; glumes subequal, rigid, 5–7-nerved; lemmas stiff with translucent margins, 5-nerved; palea rigid, keeled, the keels winged below. Female spikelets 6–10 mm long, solitary, shortly pedicellate, subtended by 3 membranous multinerved bracteoles with curved awn-like tips, florets 2, the lower sterile, the upper bisexual; glumes subequal to the spikelet, stiff, 7–9-nerved; lemmas 2, the lower rigid, hardened, 5-nerved, the upper stiff, involute with firm margins, 5-nerved; paleas 2, the lower strongly keeled, the upper hardened, 2-nerved.
Family: Poaceae Genus: Zygochloa Species: paradoxa Main Flower Colour: Other

Spinifex (Triodia)

Alan McCall — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:22:00 GMT

Family: Poaceae Genus: Triodia Species: basedowii Main Flower Colour: White