Eurobodalla Shire Council

Poplar (Populus species)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — Deciduous trees to 40m high with smooth grey or white bark, sometimes rough on the lower trunk. Leaves usually roughly triangular or diamond-shaped, on a long stalk, with a paler green or white underside. Tiny flowers in long drooping catkins are ...More…

Asparagus fern or Sprenger's asparagus

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A perennial groundcover plant with sprawling wiry stems to 2 metres long arising from underground rhizomes. The small flat needle-like leaves are arranged in clusters of 2-5, 15-25mm long by 2-3mm wide. Small spines may be present in the leaf ...More…

Rhus (Toxicodendron succedaneum)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — Deciduous small tree to 5-8m high with smooth, grey bark. Compound leaves to 10-30cm long with 4-7 pairs of leaflets. There is an unpaired terminal leaflet at the tip of each leaf. Each leaflet has a long tapered tip and a rounded asymmetric ...More…

Lion's Tail (Leonotis leonurus)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A perennial but not very woody shrub 0.5 to 2m high with finely furry grooved stems. Leaves are in opposite pairs, sparsely hairy, the same colour above and below, with toothed margins and a bluntly pointed tip, 5-8cm long. Flowers are orange, ...More…

Roldana (Roldana petasitis)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A dense bushy perennial but not very woody shrub 1.5 to 2m high with softly hairy stems. Leaves are alternate, very large (to 20 x 20cm) and almost circular, softly hairy, with bluntly lobed margins and a long leaf stalk. Flowers are daisies with ...More…

Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — Several different species in the daisy family are popularly referred to as dandelions, and all are quite similar in appearance. The most common on the coast is not the true dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), but flatweed or cat's ear (Hypochaeris ...More…

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia )

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A fast-growing deciduous tree to about 20 m high. Bark is rough and furrowed on trunk and larger branches. There may be small triangular thorns on the smaller branches. Leaves are compound, to about 15cm long, with 10-20 leaflets in opposite ...More…

Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A spreading groundcover, which can form extensive mats in wet areas. Leaves are divided into three toothed or lobed segments, often with pale markings towards the base of the segments, usually on a long leaf stalk (up to 35cm). Flowering stems ...More…

Seaside daisy (Erigeron karvinskianus)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A spreading perennial herb to about 50cm high. White to pink or red daisy flowers 1-2cm across are borne all year round. Not much naturalised on the south coast yet, but known to be weedy elsewhere. Highly tolerant of poor, dry soils and grows in ...More…

English ivy (Hedera helix)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — English ivy climbs up tree trunks, clinging by small clusters of aerial roots to the bark, unlike most climbers which have twining stems or tendrils. It has 3 lobed leaves, which are thin-textured and only slightly glossy, often with a slight ...More…

Radiata pine (Pinus radiata)

Eurobodalla Shire Council — A large evergreen tree with rough, thick grey-brown bark, deeply ridged on old trees. The leaves are reduced to needles, carried in clusters of three (this helps to distinguish them from some other pine species). Male flowers are in cylindrical ...More…

African olive (Olea europaea ssp africana )

Eurobodalla Shire Council — Tall evergreen shrub or small tree 2-15m high, with smooth grey bark, rougher at the base of large plants. New stems have small lumps called lenticels on the bark. These may be too scattered and small to be readily visible, but they can be felt ...More…