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Know Your Park Lands Plants

Your Adelaide Park Lands are home to many kinds of plants, but it’s not always easy to identify them.

On this page, we are gradually building a resource to help you identify and cherish the plants within your Adelaide Park Lands.

These articles have been featured, one at a time, on our blog. They’re listed here in alphabetical order of their common names.

Subscribe to our bimonthly newsletter, to see each addition to this page as it’s published.

Berry Saltbush

Atriplex semibaccata

Blue Gum

Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Chocolate lily

Arthropodium strictum

Common purslane or pigweed

Portulaca oleracea

Common reed

Phragmites australis

Cotton fireweed

Senecio quadridentatus

Crescent-cup liverwort

Lunularia cruciata

Drooping sheoak

Allocasuarina verticillata

Golden Wattle

Acacia pycnantha

Kangaroo thorn

Acacia paradoxa

Lemon-scented gum

Corymbia citriodora

Native apricot

Pittosporum angustifolium

Native pine

Callitris gracilis

Native scurf pea

Cullen australasicum; Psoralea australasica

Pepper tree

Schinus molle.

Purple fuzzweed

Vittadinia cuneata.

River red gum

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

Slender knotweed

Persicaria decipiens

Sticky hop-bush

Dodonaea viscosa

Tiny star

Pauridia glabella

Windmill grass

Chloris truncata

See other features of your Park Lands, on our page What’s in Your Park Lands, comprising:

  • Know Your Park Lands Plants

  • What Bird is That?

  • Know Your Park Lands Art; and

  • Cultural History and Monuments

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Adelaide Park Lands Association, c/o Affinity Business Advisers, Level 1, 458 Morphett Street,, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia0414 959 125secretary@adelaide-parklands.asn.au

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