Wednesday Walk in Cuumbeun Nature Reserve (south) – 28 July 2010

The walk began from Wright Park at the end of Old Sydney Road, Queanbeyan. We walked along the bottom of the escarpment for a short distance, admiring good displays of Leucopogon attenuatus, Cryptandra amara var. longiflora and genistifolia, before heading up the escarpment on a steep track. We saw Cryptandra propinqua and Grevillea lanigera flowering and lots of Acacia buxifolia in bud. We joined the Old Sydney Road (fire trail) and continued east for a while to the intersection with the fire trail from Captains Flat Road. New here were Stypandra glauca and Hakea decurrens (flowering). We then followed the Old Sydney Road back to Wright Park.

Part way up Image by Graeme Kruse miquelii Image by Bill Willis Astroloma humifusum Image by Martin Butterfield

Acacia genistifolia Image by Martin Hillside of Leucopogon attenuatus Image Leucopogon attenuatus Image by Martin Butterfield by Graeme Kruse Butterfield

Cryptandra propinqua Image by Bill Cryptandra amara var. longiflora Image Buds of Brachyloma daphnoides Image Willis by Bill Willis by Bill Willis

Grevillea lanigera Image by Bill Willis Hovea heterophylla Image by Martin Dillwynia sieberi Image by Bill Willis Butterfield

Prepared by the Wednesday Walkers of the Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region List for Wednesday Walk in Cuumbeun Nature Reserve (south), from Wright Park – 28 July 2010

Acacia buxifolia Glycine clandestina Acacia dawsonii Gompholobium huegelii Acacia dealbata Gonocarpus tetragynus Acacia genistifolia Goodenia hederacea Acacia gunnii Grevillea lanigera Acacia implexa Hakea decurrens Acacia mearnsii Hardenbergia violacea Hibbertia obtusifolia Acacia rubida Hovea heterophylla Acacia ulicifolia Hydrocotyle laxiflora Acaena ovina Hypericum gramineum Indigofera australis Amyema pendula Joycea pallida Aristida ramosa Kunzea ericoides Astroloma humifusum Lepideum pseudohyssopifolium Austrodanthonia sp. Lepidosperma laterale Austrostipa scabra var falcata Leucochrysum albicans ssp. albicans var tricolor Bossiaea buxifolia Leucopogon attenuatus Brachyloma daphnoides Leucopogon fletcheri ssp. brevisepalus Brachyscome rigidula Lissanthe strigosa Bulbine glauca Lomandra filiformis ssp. coriacea Bursaria spinosa Lomandra filiformis ssp. filiformis Cassinia longifolia Lomandra longifolia Cassinia quinquefaria Lomandra multiflora Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia Melichrus urceolatus Chrysocephalum apiculatum Microseris lanceolata Chrysocephalum semipapposum Olearia microphylla Crassula sieberiana Omphacomeria acerba Cryptandra amara var longiflora Poa meionectes Cryptandra propinqua Poa sp. Cymbonotus lawsonianus Pomaderris eriocephala Daucus glochidiatus Pomaderris ? subcapitata Daviesia genistifolia Pterostylis sp. Daviesia mimosoides Pultenaea microphylla Dianella revoluta Pultenaea procumbens Dillwynia sieberi Scleranthus diander Dillwynia sericea Solanum cinereum Dodonaea viscosa ssp. angustissima Stackhousia monogyna Einadia hastata Stylidium graminifolium Einadia nutans Stypandra glauca Eucalyptus macrorhyncha Styphelia triflora Eucalyptus melliodora Themeda australis Eucalyptus nortonii Thysanotus patersonii Eucalyptus polyanthemos Vittadinia muelleri Eucalyptus rossii Wahlenbergia sp Exocarpos cupressiformis Wahlenbergia stricta Galium gaudichaudii Xerochrysum viscosum Geranium sp.

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Crested Pigeon Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Crimson Rosella Fan-tailed Cuckoo White-throated Treecreeper Superb Fairy-wren Weebill Striated Thornbill Buff-rumped Thornbill Spotted Pardalote Striated Pardalote White-eared Honeyeater Red Wattlebird Australian Magpie Pied Currawong Grey Currawong Magpie-lark Scarlet Robin Common Blackbird Mistletoebird

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