Family | Chenopodiaceae |
Description | Low growing, sprawling perennial herb |
Flowering time | autumn |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Grassy woodland and sclerophyll forest |
Soil types | Ranges from sands to well drained clays. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | A very fast coloniser of bare or disturbed sites following summer rainfall. Under-used as a means of achieving rapid soil stabilisation with summer-sown direct seeding projects on mine sites, roadsides etc. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Not a particularly ornamental species but a useful groundcover. |
-other values | |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | average to high |
-minimum temperature | -3 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 2000 |
-viability period | average |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | easy |
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