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Gahnia filum
Thatching Grass
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Uses: As a feature plant in mixed native landscapes, or as a screen or wind-break along watercourses in coastal reserves. Important larval food source for native butterflies, habitat and food source for native birds.

This plant is indigenous to the following botanical regions of South Australia.


:EP: Eyre Peninsula
:YP: Yorke Peninsula
:SL: Southern Lofty
:KI: Kangaroo Island
:SE: South Eastern
 
For detail on these regions refer to the user guide.

  • Height 0.4-1.5m
  • Spread 1-1.5m
  • Position
    • position-fullsun Full Sun
  • Family Cyperaceae
  • Botanical Name Gahnia filum
  • Common Name Thatching Grass
  • Origin SA, Vic, NSW, WA, TAS
  • Habit Clumping, Tussocks
  • Landscape Coast, Tidal flats, Coastal cliffs, Coastal footslopes, 2nd line coast, Plains
  • Soil Texture Loam, Sand
  • pH Alkaline, Neutral
  • Tolerates Lime, Soil salinity, Salt spray
  • Supplementary Watering Moderate
  • Flower Colour Brown
  • Flowering Time Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
  • Flower Type Spikes
  • Purpose Habitat, Ornamental
  • Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen
  • Form Grass Sedge or Flax