Detail
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Austrodanthonia fulva
Wallaby-grass
Notes

Uses: A perennial grass for native landscapes, parks and reserves. For rockeries, borders, fill-ins or planted en-mass as drifts in verges, median strips and roundabouts.
Suitable for near coastal locations.
Seed source for native birds. Caterpillar food plant for native butterfly species.

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

  
:FR: Flinders Rangers  
:EA: Eastern   
:EP: Eyre Peninsula
:NL: Northern Lofty
:MU: Murray
:YP: Yorke Peninsula
:SL: Southern Lofty
:KI: Kangaroo Island
:SE: South Eastern
 
For detail on these regions refer to the user guide.

  • Height 0.6-0.7m
  • Spread 0.4-0.5m
  • Position
    • position-partshade Part Shade
    • position-fullsun Full Sun
  • Family Gramineae
  • Botanical Name Austrodanthonia fulva
  • Common Name Wallaby-grass
  • Origin SA, Vic, NSW, Qld
  • Habit Clumping, Dense
  • Landscape Coast, Coastal cliffs, Coastal footslopes, 2nd line coast, Plains
  • Soil Texture Clay, Loam
  • pH Alkaline, Neutral
  • Tolerates Drought, Lime
  • Supplementary Watering Minimal
  • Flower Colour Cream
  • Flowering Time Spring, Summer
  • Flower Type Grass panicle
  • Purpose Ornamental, Habitat
  • Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen
  • Form Grass Sedge or Flax