Plants

Australian plant resources


1. Books

A Field Guide to Central Australia

A Field Guide to Central Australia

A Field Guide to Central Australia is an illustrated guide to the landscape, plants and animals seen along the main tourist routes of central Australia. It covers the area around Alice Springs, west to Kings Canyon, and south to Uluru and the Simpson Desert ...
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia

A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia

A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia covers 186 formally described and named species of Eremophila that occur naturally in Western Australia. It also provides descriptions of 24 Eremophila species that have not yet been formally named. For each plant the authors provide excellent photographs and a species distribution map for Western Australia ...
A Field Guide to the Grampians Flora

A Field Guide to the Grampians Flora

A Field Guide to the Grampians Flora describes the most common trees, shrubs, climbers, lilies, grasses, orchids, and fern and fern allies in the Grampians or Gariwerd ...
A Guide toFlowers and Plants of Tasmania

A Guide to Flowers and Plants of Tasmania

A Guide to Flowers and Plants of Tasmania is a field guide to common plant species in Tasmania ...
A Guide to Plants of Inland Australia

A Guide to Plants of Inland Australia

Covers the major plants of three-quarters of the continent of Australia. This book features 800 species that are well-known, and can be easily seen throughout inland Australia ...
A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End

A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia’s Top End

A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End is an illustrated field guide to the top end of the Northern Territory. It describes the main habitats and commonly seen animals and plants in these ecosystems and contains many photographs. This is an excellent guide for naturalists who are visiting Australia's tropical north ...
Adnyamathanha and Beyond

Adnyamathanha and Beyond

Adnyamathanha and Beyond: useful plants of an ancient land is about plants in the Flinders Ranges that are significant to the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal people in South Australia. These are the plants that have provided the Adnyamathanha people with plentiful food, medicine, craft and hardware supplies for thousands of years ...
Australian Marine Life (2009 edition)

Australian Marine Life

Australian Marine Life describes 1450 of the most commonly seen plants and animals of the temperate marine waters of Australia ...
Australian native plants (6th edition)

Australian Native Plants — Cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation

This sixth edition of Australian Native Plants describes more than 1500 Australian native plants for the garden and is suitable for gardeners around Australia ...
Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries gives an overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia. These include: Anise Myrtle, Bush Tomato, Desert Raisin, Davidson s Plum, Desert Limes, Australian Finger Lime, Kakadu Plum, Lemon Aspen, Lemon Myrtle, Muntries, Native Pepper, Quandong, Riberry, and Wattle Seed ...
Australian plants for Canberra region gardens

Australian Plants for Canberra Region Gardens

Australian Plants for Canberra Region Gardens is a gardening book that overflows with colour! It describes and illustrates 934 plants suitable for Canberra ...
Birdscaping Australian Gardens

Birdscaping Australian Gardens

Birdscaping Australian Gardens helps you identify the most common Australian garden birds and choose native plants that will attract these birds to your backyard ...
Black Mountain: a natural history of a Canberra icon

Black Mountain: a natural history of a Canberra icon

This great book on Black Mountain discusses the mountain's geology, soils, vegetation, plants and animals, fire history and walks ...
Bushfires & Bushtucker

Bushfires & Bushtucker

Bushfires & Bushtucker: Aboriginal plant use in Central Australia is a comprehensive survey of desert plants and plant use in Central Australia (Northern Territory). The Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Arrente, Pintupi and many other Central Australian Aboriginal peoples have shared their knowledge with lifelong Centralian Peter Latz to produce this lively and accessible book ...
Edible wattle seeds of southern Australia

Edible Wattle Seeds of Southern Australia

Edible Wattle Seeds of Southern Australia identifies 47 Acacia species that have potential for cultivation in the southern semi-arid region of Australia as a source of seed for human consumption ...
Eremophila and Allied Genera

Eremophila and Allied Genera

Eremophila and Allied Genera presents a treatment of species in the Myoporaceae plant family. It provides detailed plant descriptions, as well as analytical drawings, notes on distribution, ecology, conservation status and relationships ...
Field Guide to Plants of the Molonglo Valley (ACT)

Field Guide to Plants of the Molonglo Valley (ACT)

Field Guide to Plants of the Molonglo Valley describes 394 native and exotic species from the Molonglo Valley of the Australian Capital Territory ...
Plants of Outback South Australia

Field Guide to the Plants of Outback South Australia

A field guide to the more common plants of outback South Australia with maps and colour photographs ...
Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia

Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia

The Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia has detailed descriptions of over 150 useful plants from Australia's temperate region. More than 600 colour photographs and drawings illustrate the plant descriptions. It contains information on a wide range of uses, such as food, fibre and medicines (including notes on preparation) ...
Flora of New South Wales

Flora of New South Wales

Flora of New South Wales is a major four-part work describing the naturally occurring and naturalised plants in New South Wales (including the ACT) ...
Flora of the Sydney Region

Flora of the Sydney Region

Flora of the Sydney Region is a plant identification guide to over 3000 indigenous or naturalised species in the area from Newcastle to Nowra, and west to Lithgow ...
Flora of Victoria

Flora of Victoria

The Flora of Victoria is a four-volume reference work covering the flowering plants, conifers, and ferns and allied plants that occur in Victoria ...
Flowers of the Australian Capital Territory and Region

Flowers of the Australian Capital Territory and Region

Flowers of the Australian Capital Territory and Region is a field guide to native and introduced plants of this region. Each plant is illustrated with a colour photograph ...
Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales-vol1

Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales

Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales is a three-part set of books that contain colour photographs of native and introduced plants ...
Grassland Flora: A Field Guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW and ACT)

Grassland Flora: a field guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW & ACT)

This Grassland Flora is a great field guide to the plants of the endangered grasslands in the Southern Tablelands of NSW and the ACT ...
Indigenous Plant Use

Indigenous Plant Use

Indigenous Plant Use is a small but very interesting booklet on indigenous use of plants of the eastern Kulin Nation (Victoria) ...
Jawoyn Plants and Animals

Jawoyn Plants and Animals

Jawoyn Plants and Animals records the traditional aboriginal Jawoyn names and uses of almost 600 plants and animals found on Jawoyn country (Nitmiluk National Park and the Katherine area, Northern Territory) ...
Kosciusko Alpine Flora

Kosciusko Alpine Flora

Kosciusko Alpine Flora is a comprehensive account of the Kosciusko environment and its alpine plants ...
Name that flower: the identification of flowering plants

Name That Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants

Name That Flower is a comprehensive guide to identifying flowering plants and focuses on plant families that occur in Australia ...
Native Plants of Northern Australia

Native Plants of Northern Australia

Native Plants of Northern Australia presents a comprehensive coverage of the trees and shrubs of the top end of the Northern Territory ...
Native Plants of the Sydney Region

Native Plants of the Sydney Region

Native Plants of the Sydney Region is a field guide of the native plants found from Newcastle to Nowra. It contains 1400 great colour photographs ...
Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia Covering areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia

Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia

Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia is one of the best illustrated tools for field identification of trees and shrubs. It covers areas of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia ...
Ngunnawal Plant Use

Ngunnawal Plant Use

Ngunnawal Plant Use is a traditional aboriginal plant use guide for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region. It describes and illustrates 69 plant species, including their Ngunnawal use, distribution, and method of propagation ...
Norfolk Island's Fascinating Flora

Norfolk Island’s Fascinating Flora

'Norfolk Island's Fascinating Flora' describes many of Norfolk Island's native and non-native plants. All plants are illustrated with colour photographs ...
Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes

Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes

Ocean Shores to Desert Dunes describes 99 vegetation types in NSW and the ACT. Each includes an indicative species list, a location map and photographs ...
Pasture Plants of North-west Queensland

Pasture Plants of North-west Queensland

Pasture Plants of North-west Queensland is one of a two-book set on the flora of north-west Queensland. It is supported by hundreds of photographs for easy identification in the field ...
Plant Life of Western Australia

Plant Life of Western Australia

Plant Life of Western Australia is an interpretation for the general reader of the Vegetation Survey of WA done from 1964 to 1984 by Dr Beard. It was first published in 1990. This new edition has been revised by Alex George. The book makes maximum use of colour illustrations ...
Plants of Central Queensland

Plants of Central Queensland

Plants of Central Queensland describes and illustrates 525 plants of central Queensland so that they can be readily identified in the field ...
Rainforest climbing plants

Rainforest Climbing Plants

Rainforest Climbing Plants is a plant identification book for the botanically minded naturalist to identify rainforest climbing plants in Victoria, NSW and subtropical Queensland ...
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-eastern Australia

Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-eastern Australia

Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia is a guide to the recovery and restoration of subtropical, warm temperate, cool temperate, gallery, dry, dry gully and littoral rainforests from south-eastern Queensland to Tasmania ...
Rainforest Trees and Shrubs

Rainforest Trees and Shrubs

An identification guide to rainforest trees and shrubs from Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features ...
South Coast Ferns

South Coast Ferns

South Coast Ferns describes 136 local fern species from the south coast in New South Wales. All species have colour photographs ...
The Grampians in Flower

The Grampians in Flower

The Grampians in Flower is a pictorial introduction to 400 flowering plants of the Grampians region and surrounding area in central western Victoria ...
The People of Gariwerd

The People of Gariwerd

The People of Gariwerd — the Grampians' aboriginal heritage tells how Aboriginal people have maintained an intense and unbroken relationship with the peaks and plains of Gariwerd since the last Ice Age to the present day ...
Trees and Shrubs of North-west Queensland

Trees and Shrubs of North-west Queensland

Trees and Shrubs of North-west Queensland is one of a two-book set on the flora of north-west Queensland. The plant descriptions are supported by many photographs for easy identification in the field ...
Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane

Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane

Brisbane and the surrounding region is one of the greenest urban environments in the world. About 2800 species of wild plants survive and mostly flourish in this region. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane is a field guide to more than 500 species of Brisbane's most familiar wild plants. It describes and illustrates these species, and contains more than 1100 excellent colour photographs ...
Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Australia

Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Australia

Anne Urban's Wildflowers and Plants of Inland Australia is a comprehensive field guide about plants of inland Australia. It covers the area between latitudes 20°S and 26°S of the Northern Territory. Each plant description is illustrated with one or more colour photographs ...

2. Websites

Atlas of Living Australia

Atlas of Living Australia

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources ...
AusGrass website

AusGrass website

The AusGrass website is a free interactive information system and identification key for 1323 native and naturalised species of grass in Australia ...
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants website

Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants website

Rainforest Plants of Australia is an interactive identification key and information software package. It includes species descriptions and feature information to identify over 1100 species of rainforest trees, shrubs and climbing plants of mainland eastern Australia. These species may occur in a variety of rainforests from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Victoria ...
Actsmart Canberra Plant Selector Tool

Canberra Plant Selector Tool

Canberra Plant Selector is an interactive tool designed by the ACT Government to select suitable plants for gardens in a Canberra climate ...
Census of the Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

Census of the Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

Census of the flora of the ACT lists the scientific names of native and naturalised plants, fungi, lichens, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and slime moulds ...
eFlora — Vascular Plants of the Sydney Region

eFlora — Vascular Plants of the Sydney Region

eFlora Sydney — Vascular Plants of the Sydney Region is an interactive, dichotomous key to all species of vascular plants in the Sydney region. The identification keys, plant descriptions and botanical glossary have been adapted from the 5th edition of the Flora of the Sydney Region (Pellow, Henwood and Carolin 2009) ...
eFloraSA Electronic Flora of South Australia

eFloraSA — Electronic Flora of South Australia

The Electronic Flora of South Australia aims to provide a comprehensive online account of the plants of South Australia. The website includes several components: the Plant Distribution Mapper, the Census of South Australian Plants, Algae and Fungi, plant fact sheets (based on the 1986 edition of the Flora of South Australia), and plant identification tools ...
EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia, edition 4

EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia website

The EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia website has an online database and interactive identification tool of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora) species in Australia. The database contains information on 934 species and subspecies, and covers all Australian states and territories ...
Flora of Australia online

Flora of Australia online

The Flora of Australia online, based on the published Flora of Australia, lists the names, characteristics, distribution and habitat of Australian plants ...
FloraBase, The Western Australian Flora

FloraBase — The Western Australian Flora

FloraBase is a public access web-based database of the flora of Western Australia. It provides authoritative scientific information on 12,978 taxa, including descriptions, maps, images, conservation status and nomenclatural details ...
FloraNT Northern Territory Flora Online

FloraNT — Northern Territory Flora Online

FloraNT — Northern Territory Flora Online is the primary online resource for information on the Northern Territory’s flora. Images and distributions maps, species checklists, flora descriptions, conservation and weed status, ecological attributes, and ethno-botanical information are all available ...
Honkey Nuts website

Honkey Nuts

The Honkey Nuts website displays images and information about native trees and shrubs in the Perth region of Western Australia ...
Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants

Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants

The Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants website is an interactive online tool to identify vascular plants of Tasmania ...
NatureMapr website

NatureMapr website and app

The NatureMapr website is a citizen science platform that helps organisations collect, manage and analyse information from the natural world ...
New South Wales Flora online

New South Wales Flora online

Data on the NSW Flora online website are derived from the printed Flora of New South Wales, augmented with data from electronic sources maintained by the National Herbarium of New South Wales. The website contains plant descriptions, an index, and identification keys to families, genera and species ...
North Queensland Plants website

North Queensland Plants website

The North Queensland Plants website is a private site with images of about 2000 Australian plants. It has a focus on plants of North Queensland and all photos are taken in the wild and identified ...
NSW Shutherland Shire Plant Selector

NSW Sutherland Shire Plant Selector

The NSW Sutherland Plant Selector is an interactive tool designed by Sutherland Shire to select suitable plants for gardens in a local climate ...
Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants

Plant identification keys to Western Australian plants

The plant identification keys published by the Western Australian Herbarium allow the identification of more than 3400 species of Western Australia's wildflowers in eight major families ...
Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales

Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales

The Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales app describes 1100 plants in South Western NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

The Plants of South Eastern New South Wales app describes 3900 plants in South Eastern NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
plants of the pinnacle nature reserve

Plants of the the Pinnacle Nature Reserve (ACT)

This webpage lists plants identified in The Pinnacle Nature Reserve in Canberra. It also has photographs for some of the plants ...
Seeds of South Australia website

Seeds of South Australia website

The Seeds of South Australia website is a unique website with special information about seeds of South Australian native plants ...
Trees and Shrubs of Black Mtn, Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura based on Vegetative Characters

Trees and shrubs of Black Mountain, Mount Ainslie and Mount Majura

This is a plant identification key for trees and shrubs in the ACT reserves of Black Mountain, Mount Ainslie and Mount Majura. The key is based on vegetative characteristics (non flowering or fruiting characteristics) ...
VicFlora Flora of Victoria

VicFlora

VicFlora is a comprehensive and current guide to the wild plants of Victoria. It includes plant profiles, identification tools and many illustrations ...
Wattle Acacias of Australia 3

WATTLE Acacias of Australia 3

WATTLE Acacias of Australia 2.2 is an online database to identify wattles (Acacia) species in Australia. It contains all known species that have been described to date (2018). This is a great tool, but requires botanical knowledge and knowledge of the database, Lucid key, functionality. It is available free online ...
Weeds Australia website

Weeds Australia website

The Weeds Australia website has information about 398 weed species in Australia; why weeds are a problem; how to identify and record them; and how to manage them ...
Wildflowers of the Darwin Region

Wildflowers of the Darwin region

The Wildflowers of the Darwin region website shows many plant photographs of the local flora around Darwin. Flowers are organised by colour ...

3. Apps

Coastal Life of SE Queensland app logo

Coastal Life of South East Queensland app

Coastal Life of SE Queensland is a free app to help you identify species on the rocky shores, muddy sandflats and mangroves of SE Qld. It describes over 540 species ...
GroNATIVE app logo

GroNATIVE app

GroNATIVE is a free app that helps home gardeners and designers select local native plants suitable for the garden in South East Queensland ...
Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales

Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales

The Plants and Fungi of South Western New South Wales app describes 1100 plants in South Western NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

The Plants of South Eastern New South Wales app describes 3900 plants in South Eastern NSW and includes a tool to identify plants: a great way to learn! ...
Rainforest Plants Australia

Rainforest Plants of Australia

Rainforest Plants of Australia is an interactive identification key and information software package. It includes species descriptions and feature information to identify over 1100 species of rainforest trees, shrubs and climbing plants of mainland eastern Australia. These species may occur in a variety of rainforests from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Victoria ...

4. Software