This video documents 35 species of Indigenous flora that have returned to Country after two years of extensive winter browsing and grazing by Boer goats. The goats have eaten down 2-4m high blackberry and stripped the flowers of other woody weed species such as gorse and broom, and this has enabled a significant recharge of biota in a small community-managed forest in southern Djaara Peoples' Country. Thanks Tanya Loos for your plantsmithing knowledges and assistance.
Djaara and other First Peoples please be advised. We acknowledge the names of the flora in this video are not the true names given by Mother Country. Imperialist classification is regrettably used here as a temporary identification measure and not to continue to support a colonial lineage. We believe that one day language will return to Country.
Flora species in order of appearance:
FISHBONE WATER FERN (BLECHNUM NUDUM) FIREWEED GROUNDSEL (SENECIO LINEARIFOLIUS) SLENDER SPEEDWELL ((VERONICA GRACILIS) KANGAROO GRASS (THEMEDA TRIANDRA) PALE SUNDEW (DROSERA PELTATA SSP PELTATA) WATTLE MAT-RUSH (LOMANDRA FILIFORMIS) MILKMAIDS (BURCHARDIA UMBELLATA) GREY PARROT-PEA (DILLWYNIA CINERASCENS) SPIKY-HEADED MAT-RUSH (LOMANDRA LONGIFOLIA) POA TUSSOCK GRASS (POA LABILLARDIEREI) RED-ANTHER WALLABY GRASS (RYTIDOSPERMA PALLIDUM) EARLY NANCY (WURMBEA DIOICA) COMMON RICE FLOWER (PIMELEA HUMILIS) BLUE BOTTLE-DAISY (LAGENOPHORA STIPITATA) BIDGEE WIDGEE (ACAENA NOVAE-ZELANDIAE) AUSTRAL BUTTERCUP (RANUNCULUS LAPPACEUS) AUSTRAL BRACKEN (PTERIDIUM ESCULENTUM) BLACK ANTHER FLAX LILY (DIANELLA REVOLUTA) YAM DAISY (MICROSERIS WALTERI) PALE VANILLA-LILY (ARTHROPODIUM MILLEFLORUM) AUSTRAL CRANESBILL (GERANIUM SOLANDERI) PORANTHERA (PORANTHERA MICROPHYLLA) BLACKWOOD WATTLE (ACACIA MELANOXYLON) SWEET BURSARIA (BURSARIA SPINOSA) TIGER ORCHID (DIURIS SULPHUREA) NATIVE VIOLET (VIOLA HEDERACEA) BILLY BUTTONS (PYCNOSORUS GLOBOSUS) CHERRY BALLART (EXOCARPOS CUPRESSIFORMIS) COMMON RASPWORT (GONOCARPUS TETRAGYNUS) PRICKLY STARWORT (STELLARIA PUNGENS) GRASS TRIGGERPLANT (STYLIDIUM GRAMINIFOLIUM) BRANCHING BLUEBELL (WAHLENBERGIA MULTICAULIS) COMMON CASSINIA (CASSINIA ACULEATA) SILVER WATTLE (ACACIA DEALBATA) HAIRY PENNYWORT (HYDROCOTYLE HIRTA)