Plant community No. 32
This ‘sedgeland’ is dominated by Smooth Cutting-grass (Gahnia filum), Salt Club-rush (Bolboschoenus caldwellii), and Lignum (Muehlenbeckia florulenta). It is found on deep, cracking, light-brown clay soils with high saline content (and seasonally inundated) on former coastal lagoons and estuaries.
Caterpillar food plants in this community
Grasses
- Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
Sedges
- Smooth Cutting-grass (Gahnia filum)
See also
Butterfly nectar plants of the Adelaide region
Plants information
Butterflies of this plant community
Golden-haired Sedge-skipper
Hesperilla chrysotricha
Now threatened in the South Mt. Lofty Ranges. Most likely to be seen in pristine, open wetland areas south of McLaren Vale.
White-banded Grass-dart
Taractrocera papyria
Now rare and most likely to be seen along grassy creek lines; its caterpillars feed on native and introduced grasses.
