Native Grasses: Identification Handbook for Temperate Australia
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Native Grasses: Identification Handbook for Temperate Australia is an easy-to-use tool for identifying some of the most common native grasses in temperate Australia. The text describes 17 species in detail, covering general features as well as specific distinguishing features. Full-colour photographs of the whole plant, as well as close-ups of significant parts of the plants such as the seedhead, leaf blade, seed and ligule, accompany each species description.
The handbook provides advice on grassland management as well as highlighting the benefits of native grasses to the environment, agriculture, landscaping and upland hydrology.
Please note that this book is spiral-bound.
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Native Grasses - Meredith M. Mitchell
NATIVE
GRASSES
An Identification Handbook for Temperate Australia
Third Edition
Meredith Mitchell
Photographs by John Schneider
© CSIRO 2002
Reprinted 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, duplicating or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Contact the publisher for all permission requests.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Mitchell, Meredith.
Native Grasses: identification handbook for temperate Australia.
3rd ed.
Bibliography.
ISBN 0 643 06656 X.
1. Grasses – Australia – Identification. 2. Grasses – Identification. I. Title. 584.90994
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Collingwood VIC 3066
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Set in 9/11 Minion
Cover and text design by James Kelly
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Glossary
Generalised anatomy of a grass
Cane Wire Grass
Wallaby Grass
Spear Grass
Red Grass
Windmill Grass
Tall Windmill Grass
Silky Blue Grass
Cotton Panic Grass
Spreading Umbrella Grass
Common Wheat Grass
Nineawn Grass
Curly Windmill Grass
Brown’s Lovegrass
Weeping Grass
Tussock Grass
Snow Grass
Kangaroo Grass
References
Further reading
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank all concerned for their help and support in the production of this book.
The project was supported by