Scientific Name: Australopyrum velutinum

Common Name: velvet wheatgrass

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Poaceae

Threatened Species Status: Rare

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Erect, few-stemmed perennial.

Flowers: Spikes 2-5.5cm long, dense, the lowest spikelets sometimes distant.

Fruit: Caryopsis

Municipality
Central HighlandsKentishLatrobeTasman
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine VegetationGrassland
Habitat Notes

Recorded only from the Middlesex Plains area and south of Lake Augusta, Central Highlands.

Site Tolerance

Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Seed, Division

Seed Information