Important grasses for northern (n), central (c) and southern (s) Queensland Desirable perennial grasses Black speargrass Buffel grass Desert bluegrass/forest Mitchell Early spring grass Forest bluegrass Kangaroo grass Queensland bluegrass Sabigrass Intermediate value grasses (perennials and annuals) Barbwire grass Button grass Comet grass Fairy grass Finger grasses Golden beard or ribbon grass Indian bluegrass or couch Leafy nine-awnlbottle washer Liverseed grass Mulga mitchell Native couch Panics Pitted bluegrass Poverty grass Red Natal grass Silky browntop Slender chloris 1\virly windmill grass Woodland love grass Undesirable or low value grasses Fairy grass Five minute grass Granite love grass One seed grass Pigeon grass Rat's tail grasses Rough speargrass Small burr grass Sedges Slender bamboo grass Wiregrass, feathertop Wiregrass, dark Wiregrass, Jericho Wiregrass, many-headed Wiregrass, purple Heteropogon contortus (- n,c) Cenchrus ciliaris (n, c, s * ) Bothriochloa ewartiana (- n, c, s) Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha (c,s) Bothriochloa bladhii (- n, c, s) Themeda triandra (- n, c, s) Dichanthium sericeum (- c, s) Urochloa mosambicensis (+ n, c, s* ) Cymbopogon rejractus (n, c, s) Dactyloctenium radulans (+ c) Perotis rara (+ n, c, s) Sporobolus caroli (+ c, s) Digitaria species (s) Chrysopogonjallax (n, c, s) Bothriochloa pertusa (+ n *) Enneapogon polyphyllus (+ n, c, s) Urochloa panicoides (+ *) Thyridolepis species (s) Brachyachne convergens (+ ) Panicum species ( + ) Bothriochloa decipiens (n, c, s) Eremochloa bimaculata (c, s) Melinis repens (+ n, c, s) Eulalia aurea (E.julva) (- n, c) Chloris divaricata (+ n, c, s) Enteropogon species (+ c, s) Eragrostis sororia (+ n, c, s) Sporobolus australasicus (+ n, c, s) Tripogon loliiformis (+ c, s) Eragrostis molybdea (+) Cleistochloa subjuncea Setaria species (n, c, s) Sporobolus species (+ n, c, s) Stipa scabra (s) Tragus australianus (+ n, c, s) Cyperus and Fimbristylis ( + ) Stipa verticillata (+ s) Aristida latifolia( + n, c, s) A calycina (+ c, s) Ajerichoensis (+c, s) A caput-medusae (+ s) A ramosa (+ c, s) + indicates that this species increases under heavy grazing; - indicates this species decreases under heavy grazing; * indicates exotic species. The intermediate value rating applies to a species in its relevant soil type. 38
Other important plants Native legumes Birdsville indigo Glycine, hairy Glycine pea Rhynchosia Tick trefoil IndigoJera linnaei Glycine tomentella Glycine tabacina Rhynchosia minima Desmodium varians Broad-leaved weeds indicating heavy grazing Flannelweeds Fruit salad plant Mexican poppy Pigweed Sida and Abutilon spp. Pterocaulon redo lens Argemone ochroleuca Portulaca spp. Other problem plants Currant/blackberry bush Heartleaf Limebush Mimosa bush Mother -of-millions Par kinsonia Parthenium Pimelea Rubbervine Carissa ovata Gastrolobium grandiflorum (n) Eremocitrus 9 lauca AcaciaJarnesiana Bryophyllum spp. Parkinsonia aculeata (n) Parthenium hysterophorus Pimelea spp. (s) Cryptostegia grandiflora (n) Many of these plants are illustrated and described in: Is your pasture past it? for the northern region, Plants of central Queensland: their identification and uses for central Queensland, Pasture plants of southern inland Queensland for the south. 39
Buffel grass Desert bluegrass [forest mitchelo Queensland bluegrass Sabi grass 40
Indian bluegrass (Indian couch) Early spring grass Fairy grass (S. carolv 41
Leafy nine-awn grass or bottle washer Liverseed grass Woodland love grass Pitted bluegrass 42
Silky brown top Slender chloris Button grass Comet grass 43
Native couch Small burr grass Fairy grass (S. australasicus) Rats tail grass Red Natal grass 44
Sedge (Cyperus sp.j Barbwire grass Slender bamboo grass One-seed grass 45
Jericho wiregrass Feathertop wiregrass Purple wiregrass Granite lovegrass 46