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Explore Plants

The list of plants below includes the species you are most likely to see as you wander around the Bluff and surrounds. There are a number of flora guides and booklets to help you identify plant species that are commonly found on the Bellarine. Click the buttons below to view these booklets in PDF format. Plants can be classified into ‘Ecological Vegetation Classes’ or EVCs – find out more here.

Plants that Clothe the Bluff
Coastal Plants of the Bellarine Peninsula
Inland Plants of the Bellarine Peninsula

Plants

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Austral Salt-grass

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Austral Seablite

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Beaded Glasswort

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Bidgee Widgee

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Bower Spinach

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Chaffy Saw Sedge

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Climbing Lignum

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Coast Beard-heath

Coast Blown Grass

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Coast Bonefruit

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Coast Daisy-bush

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Coast Fan-flower

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Coast Fescue

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Coast Flax-lily

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Coast Pomaderris

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Coast Saltbush

Coast Spear-grass

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Coast Swainson-pea

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Coast Sword-sedge

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Coast Tea-tree

Coast Tussock Grass

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Coast Twin-leaf

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Coast Wattle

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Coast Wirilda

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Cushion Bush

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Drooping Sheoak

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Dune Thistle

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Grey Mangrove

Hairy Spinifex

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Hedge Wattle

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Karkalla

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Knobby Club-rush

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Moonah

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Prickly Spear-grass

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Rounded Noon-flower

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Running Postman

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Sea Box

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Sea Celery

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Sea Heath

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Sea Rush

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Seaberry Saltbush

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Shiny Swamp-mat

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Small-leaved Clematis

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Spiny-headed Mat-rush

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Tangled Lignum

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Thyme Rice-flower

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Variable Groundsel

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White Correa

Photographers

Bernie Lingham (Chaffy Saw Sedge, Sea Heath, Shiny Swamp-mat)
Matt Crawley (Coast Pomaderris, Knobby Club-rush)
Naomi Wells (all other images)
NATUREhoodz (Coast Blown Grass, Coast Spear-grass)
Nick Thoms (Prickly Spear-grass)
Rod Lowther (Coast Wattle, Sea Rush, Tangled Lignum)