Today I joined the Field Nats on an excursion to Inverleigh Nature Conservation Reserve (known as the Common). It's a 1000ha grassy woodland with a Friends Group, some interesting plants (including a spider orchid that only grows there) and a very good bird list.
We saw quite a few orchids today, including the spider orchid in wire cages. The Friends locate as many as they can each year and cover each in a wire cage to protect it from marauding possums, choughs, kangaroos, wallabies and rabbits. They are very beautiful orchids but unfortunately none of my photos are good enough to upload.
There were other plants flowering and many others in bud. These are a few of the little plants that are easily overlooked. All are in the Asteraceae family.
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| Common Sunray Triptilodiscus pygmaeus (not quite open) |
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| Moss Sunray Hyalosperma demissum |
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| Soft Millotia Millotia tennifolia |
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| Hoary Sunray Leucochrysum albicans var. tricolor (not fully open) |
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