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Eriocaulon australasicum
Also called Southern Pipewort
Austral pipewort is a small annual semi-aquatic herb of the pipewort family, found in southeastern Australia and listed as endangered. It grows in shallow seasonally flooded depressions and swamp margins, flowering as the water recedes.
Eriocaulon australasicum (common names southern pipewort, austral pipewort) is an endangered monocotyledonous plant in the Eriocaulaceae family found in Australia, in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.
It grows in shallow, seasonally-inundated, depressions and on the margins of swamps
Pipewort · Eriocaulon bolei · Tenangle pipewort · Gulf pipewort · Eriocaulon longipetalum · Blackbract pipewort · Estuary pipewort · Eriocaulon ratnagiricum · Eriocaulon rouxianum · Eriocaulon santapaui · Rough pipewort · Eriocaulon sharmae
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriocaulon australasicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
