Recognise the important grasses Desirable perennial grasses Black speargrass contortus - Birdwood buffel setiger Buffel grass Cloncury buffel Cenchrus pennisetijormis Desert bluegrass ewartiana - Forest bluegrass Bothriochloa bladhii - Giant speargrass - Gulf or curly bluegrass Dichanthiumjecundum - Indian couch + Kangaroo grass Themeda triandra - Mitchell grass, barley Astrebla pectinata Mitchell grass, bull Astrebla squarrosa Mitchell grass, hoop Astrebla elymoides Plume sorghum Sorghum plumosum + Sabi grass Urochloa mosambicensis - Silky browntop aurea (E. julva) - +" Wild rice Oryza australiensis Intermediate value grasses (perennials and annuals) Barbwire grass rejractus Bottle washer or limestone grass Enneapogon polyphyllus + Early spring grass Eriochloa procera + Fire grass spp. Flinders grass Iseilema spp. + Ribbon grass Chrysopogon jallax Liverseed Urochloa panico ides + Love grasses Eragrostis species + Pitted bluegrass Bothriochloa decipiens Annual sorghum Sorghum timorense Red natal grass Melinis repens (Rhynchelytrum) + Rice grass Xerochloa imburbis Salt water couch Sporobolus virginicus , soft Spinifex, curly Triodia bitextusa (Plectrachne pungens) Spiny mud grass Pseudoraphis spinescens White grass nervosum Wanderrie grass Eriachne spp. Native millet Panicum decompositum + Annual and less desirable grasses Asbestos grass Pennisetum basedowii Button grass Dacty loctenium radulans + Desert or Kimberley couch Brachyacne convergens + Fairy grass Sporobolus australaticus + Feathertop Aristida latijolia Five minute grass loliijormis + Leafy nine-awn Enneapogon polyphyllus + Purple top grass ChloriS inflata (C. barbata) + Mission grass Pennisetum polystachyon *

41 Rat's tail grasses Sporobolus species Reed or cane grass Arundinella nepalensis Sedges Cyperaceae + Slender chloris Chloris divaricata + Small burr grass Tragus australianus + grass Mnesitheajormosa Spinifex, hard Triodia intermedia Pigeon grass Setaria apiculata, S. pumila Wiregrass Aristida spp. + Woodland love grass Eragrostis sororia + Comet grass Perotis rara

+ indicates that this species increases under heavy ; - indicates this species decreases under heavy grazing. * considered an environmental because of the hot fires

Other important Native Birdsville indigo Indigojera linnaei Indigojera colutea Glycines Glycine tomentella Glycine tabacina Rhynchosia Rhynchosia minima Buffalo clover vaginalis Browse herb Kapok bush Aervajavinica Broad-leaved indicating heavy grazing salad Pterocaulon redo lens Pigweed Portulaca spp. Paddy's lucerne, broom weed Sida acuta, S. cordifolia Other problem plants Bellyache bush Jatropha gossypiijloia Birdsville indigo Indigojera linnaei Calotrope/rubber bush Calotropis procera Chinee apple Ziziphus mauritiana Conkerberry/currant bush Carissa lanceolata Mimosa bush Acacia jarnesiana Prickly acacia Acacia nilotica Rubbervine Cryptostegia grandijlora

See the book list for plant identification books.

42 Black speargrass

Silky browntop

Gulf bluegrass

Indian bluegrass or couch

43 Hoop Mitchell

Wild rice

44 Birdwood burrel

Fire grass

45 Native millet

Pitted bluegrass

White grass

love grass

Bottlewasherllimestone grass

46 Liverseed grass

Spiny mud grass

47 Asbestos grass

Pigeon grass

Chloris

48 Feathertop wiregrass

Northern feathertop

Northern kerosene wiregrass

Another wiregrass

Silky oil grass

Sedge

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