WEEDS A Falls Creek Resort Management FIELD GUIDE

1 Slalom Street, Falls Creek VIC 3699 PO Box 50, Falls Creek VIC 3699

For more information go to www.fallsuserguide.com or phone the Visitor Information Centre on (03) 5758 1200 Yarrow Soft Rush Russel Lupin Achillea millefolium Juncus effusus Lupinus polyphyllus

HELP PREVENT WEED SPREAD

Weeds have a significant impact on the alpine environment. Many of the resort’s weeds were initially introduced as garden plants or to help stabilise modified ski slopes, unaware of the impact they would

English Broom Grey Sallow Rowan have on our native flora and fauna. The large number Cytisus scoparius Salix cinerea Sorbus aucuparia of people, vehicles and machinery entering the resort continues to pose a risk of new weeds being introduced. A folding pocket guide to familiar Please do the right thing to prevent weed seed spread by brushing down and washing boots, gaiters and bikes. species of native plants and weeds There is a hose at the Bike Wash Station located across the road from the Falls Creek Police Station.

Please report all weed sightings to Falls Creek Resort Blackberry Yellow Alstroemeria Periwinkle Management office or email: Rubus fruticosus Alstroemeria aurea Vinca minor [email protected] and include details on the location, number of plants and/or photos.

This project has been supported by the Victorian Government as part of the Victorian Landcare Grants Program

St John’s Wort Shasta Daisy Montbretia Hypericum Leucanthemum Crocosmia perforatum superbum crocosmiiflora

GROUND COVERS HERBS LARGE SHRUBS

Ivy Goodenia Creeping Fan Flower Billy Button Silver Snow Daisy Alpine Pepper Tall Rice-Flower Goodenia hederacae Scaevola hookeri Craspedia species Celmisia species Tasmannia xerophila Pimelea ligustrina

SMALL SHRUBS

Tasman Flax Lilly Grass Trigger Plant Cascading Everlasting Royal Grevillea Mountain Plum Pine Bogong Daisy Bush Dianella tasmanica Stylyium graminifolium Ozothamnus secundiflorus Grevillea victoriae Podocarpus lawrencei Olearia frostii

Orange Everlasting Derwent Speedwell Leafy Bossiaea Hop Bitterpea Alpine Grevillea Alpine Hovea Bracteantha subundulata Veronica derwentiana Bossiaea foliosa Daviesia latifolia Grevillea australis Hovea montana

Mountain Beard Heath Yellow Kunzea Showy Violet Royal Bluebell Alpine Orites Alpine Mint Bush Acrothamnus hookeri Kunzea meulleri Viola betonicifolia Wahlenbergia gloriosa Orites lancifolia Prostanthera cuneata