Wednesday Walk North from Kambah Pool

The walk starts near the top car park at Kambah Pool, crossing a grassland to then cross a creek before climbing high above the Murrumbidgee River. We walked about 3km to where Station Creek runs into the river. We had lunch up high with the view then a few went to the river, checking that the Cryptandra propinqua population was still there and healthy - it was in great abundance and in bud. The river area where we usually have lunch was unrecognisable - overgrown and also piles of debris from floods. There weren't many flowers - a few on the many eremicola, one Hibbertia riparia, some Correa reflexa (green) and some Grevillea juniperina. There is going to be a great display of buxifolia, A. rubida and Pomaderris pallida. The recovery after the fire is quite remarkable - dense areas of wattles and eucalypt saplings as well as many grevilleas. Even the Discaria pubescens population seemed more extensive. We added many grass species to our post-fire list which probably reflects the breaking of the drought since our last visit in 2008.

View of Murrumbidgee River Image by Hillside of Pultenaea procumbens Image Grevillea juniperina Image by Roger Roger Farrow by Roger Farrow Farrow

Westringia eremicola Image by Roger Pomaderris pallida buds Image by Martin Farrow Butterfield Correa reflexa Image by Martin Butterfield

Pomaderris eriocephala Image by Roger P. eriocephala leaf showing hair tufts Hibbertia riparia Image by Roger Farrow Farrow Image by Roger Farrow

Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Society, Canberra Region List for Walk from Kambah Pool (north) – post-fire – 24 August 2004, 18 June 2008 & 13 June 2012 ? indicates that those present were unsure of the plant name

Acacia buxifolia Eucalyptus melliodora Acacia dealbata Eucalyptus nortonii Acacia rubida Eucalyptus polyanthemos Acaena novae-zelandiae Eucalyptus rossii Acaena ovina Gallium gaudichaudii Acrotriche serrulata Geranium sp. Ajuga australis Glycine clandestina Aristida ramosa Glycine tabacina Asperula sp. Gonocarpus tetragynus Asplenium flabellifolium Grevillea juniperina Astroloma humifusum Gynatrix pulchella Austrodanthonia laevis Haloragis heterophylla Austrodanthonia sp. Hardenbergia violacea Austrostipa scabra ssp. falcata Hibbertia obtusifolia Bothriochloa macra Hibbertia riparia Brachychiton populneus Hovea heterophylla Bulbine bulbosa Hydrocotyle laxiflora Bulbine glauca Hypericum gramineum Bursaria spinosa Indigofera adesmiifolia Callistemon sieberi Kunzea ericoides Callitris endlicheri Kunzea parvifolia Carex appressa Lepidosperma laterale Carex inversa Leptorhynchos squamatus Cassinia aculeata Lissanthe strigosa Cassinia longifolia Lomandra filiformis ssp. coriacea Cassinia quinquefaria Lomandra filiformis ssp. filiformis Casuarina cunninghamiana Lomandra longifolia Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia Lomandra multiflora Chrysocephalum apiculatum Luzula densiflora Chrysocephalum semipapposum Melichrus urceolatus Clematis microphylla Microseris lanceolata Convolvulus erubescens Opercularia hispida Correa reflexa Panicum effusum Craspedia variabilis Phragmites australis Crassula sieberiana Pimelea curviflora Cryptandra amara var. longiflora Plantago varia Cryptandra propinqua Pleurosorus ? rutifolius Cymbonotus lawsonianus Poa induta Cynoglossum sp. Poa sieberiana mimosoides Pomaderris angustifolia Desmodium brachypodum Pomaderris eriocephala Desmodium varians Pomaderris pallida Dianella revoluta Pterostylis sp. Dichondra repens Pultenaea procumbens Discaria pubescens Rubus parvifolius Dodonaea viscosa Schoenus apogon Einadia nutans Scleranthus biflorus Enneapogon nigricans Senecio quadridentatus Eucalyptus blakelyi Solanum cinereum Eucalyptus bridgesiana Solenogyne dominii Eucalyptus macrorhyncha Sorghum leiocladum Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Sporobolus ? creber Vittadinia muelleri Stackhousia monogyna Wahlenbergia sp. Stellaria pungens Wahlenbergia stricta Stylidium graminifolium Westringia eremicola Themeda triandra Wurmbea dioica Tricoryne elatior Xerochrysum viscosum Vittadinia cuneata

Bird List Galah Sulphur-crested Cockatoo White-throated Treecreeper Superb Fairy-wren White-browed Scrubwren Yellow-rumped Thornbill Buff-rumped Thornbill Spotted Pardalote Eastern Spinebill White-eared Honeyeater Brown-headed Honeyeater Grey Shrike-thrush Australian Magpie Pied Currawong Australian Raven Scarlet Robin Red-browed Finch

Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region