Plant Identikit

Description

On visiting the Flinders Ranges we see many plants that are unique to the arid zones of inland Australia. The tall cypress-like trees of the native pine down to the spiny grass like plant of the spinifex.
This plant identikit will help you find the name- Ptilotus obovatus var. obovatus, silver mull amulla. Some fifty-plus of the more common plants found in the Flinders Ranges are illustrated an described in this plant identikit, together with information on similar or closely-related plants in the area, which help identification of nearly double that number of species.