ChitChat Trail Note Series Carty Reserve This natural trail meanders along a creek line and through revegetated reserve. Visitors can learn about the local flora and fauna through informative interpretive signage. Length & Estimated Time 750m trail, 1.5km / 30 minutes return. Difficulty - “Class 2” Mainly flat with some slight inclines, no steps, short boardwalk creek crossing.

Quality Natural surface formed tracks with some small obstacles, sufficient signage. Facilities Toilets [NO] Picnic Area [YES] Parking [YES] Visitor Safety Please stay on the track and remember that Location you are in a natural area, your safety is our Great Northern Highway, Upper Chittering concern but ultimately it is your responsibility. (opposite RSN 5462) Make sure you have suitable footwear, a hat, sunscreen and water. Geocode -31.44107, 116.071056 Caring for the Trail Do not feed the native animals as it interferes Linking Trails with their ability to hunt. Taking flora and Nearby is Spoonbill Lake - it is proposed in the fauna is prohibited but please do take your future that these trails be formally linked, rubbish. Cleaning shoes/tyres to help prevent possibly even through to the Bindoon town- dieback spread would be appreciated. site. Watch this space! For More Information Please Contact Shire of Chittering Administration Centre Landcare 6177 Great Northern Highway, Bindoon 175 Old Gingin Road, Muchea 08 9576 4600 08 9571 0400 www.chittering.wa.gov.au www.chitteringlandcare.org.au ChitChat Trail Note Series Carty Reserve

Winter 2012 Revegetation Planting See if you can spot any, or all of these, as you walk the trail. Scientific name | Common Name | Notes • Acacia lasiocarpa | Panjang | Wattle shrub. • Acacia pulchella | Prickly Moses | Wattle shrub. • Allocasuarina huegliana | Rock Sheoak | Tree with fine leaves. • Banksia grandis | Bull Banksia | Tree with large divided leaves and pale yellow-green flowers in large heads. • Calothamnus quadrifidus | One-sided Bottlebrush | Shrub with red flowers. • Corymbia calophylla | Marri or Redgum | Tree with white flowers and seeds in large nuts. Good food source for a variety of parrots and cockatoos. • Eucalyptus rudis | Flooded Gum | Tree with bluish leaves and white flowers. • Eucalyptus wandoo | Wandoo | Tree with white or creamy colour bark, bluish leaves and white flowers. • Hakea lissocarpha | Honeybush | Shrub with prickly needle-like divided leaves and white or pink sweet scented flowers. • Hakea prostrata | Harsh Hakea | Shrub or tree with prickly toothed leaves and cream flowers. Black cockatoos often break off the ends of the branches in order to get the seeds from the woody fruit. • Hakea trifurcata | Two-leaf Hakea | Shrub with two types of leaf one prickly divided and needle-like and the other leaf-like but twisted. The leaf-like leaves are only on the plant when it is flowering and fruiting. They resemble the fruit and are an adaptation to reduce the predation of seed. • Hakea undulata | Wavy-leaf Hakea | Shrub with white flowers and wavy prickly toothed leaves. • Hakea varia | Variable-leaved Hakea | Shrub with prickly leaves and white to yellow flowers. • Hypocalymma angustifolium | White Myrtle | Shrub with fine leaves and white, or sometimes pink, perfumed flowers. • Kennedia prostrata | Running Postman | Creeper with red pea-shaped flowers. • Kunzea glabrescens | Spearwood | Shrub with fine often hairy foliage and cream flowers with a smell which some people may find a little unpleasant. • Melaleuca lateritia | Robin Redbreast Bush | Shrub with orange-red bottlebrush flowers. • Melaleuca radula | Graceful Honeymyrtle | Shrub with pink, white, or purple bottlebrush flowers. • Melaleuca teretifolia | Banbar | Shrub or tree with white, pink or cream flowers. • Melaleuca uncinata | Broom Bush | Shrub or tree with white to yellow flowers. • Melaleuca viminea | Mohan | Shrub or tree with white or cream flowers. • Austrostipa species | Speargrass | A native grass which has regenerated naturally in the area since the reserve was created. Its seeds have long hairs which twist in response to changes in moisture helping them to be buried for more successful germination. • Rytidosperma species | Wallaby Grass | A native grass which has regenerated naturally in the area since the reserve was created. It has fluffy seeds and can be used as part of a native pasture.