Australian Alpine Plants

Australian Alpine Plants

                                          

                                         Cradle Mountain Tasmania 1,545m

                                         Walls of Jerusalem Tasmania 1,290m

                                         Mount Baw Baw Victoria 1,567m

                                         Mount Bogong Victoria 1,986m  

                                         Mount Feathertop Victoria 1,922m 

                                         Mount Hotham Victoria 1,861m

                                         Mount Kosciusko New South Wales  2,228m

                                         Mount McKay Victoria 1,830m

                            

Cradle Mountain, Lake Dove, Tasmania

Athrotaxis cupressoides Pencil pines on the edge of the many Tarns in the Walls of Jerusalem Tasmania.

Watchbed Creek near Falls Creek Victoria with the burnt snow gums in the back ground, re-sprouting from ancient underground lignotubers.

An Alpine Garden. Mt. Hotham

Aciphylla glacialis. Mt. Hotham

Baeckea gunniana. Bogong High Plains

Blandfordia punicea Cradle Mt

Brachycome nivalis. Bogong High Plains

Brachycome rigidula. Bogong High Plains

Brachycome spathulata. Bogong High Plains

Brachycome spathulata Alba. Bogong High Plains

Psychrophila introloba syn. Caltha introloba in snow melt  Mt Kosciusko

Psychrophila introloba syn. Caltha introloba dark form Mt Kosciusko

Celmisia astelifolia. Bogong High Plains

Celmisia sericophylla. Bogong High Plains

Celmisia sericophylla. Bogong High Plains

Craspedia glauca. Bogong High Plains

Craspedia glauca. Bogong High Plains

Ewartia nubigena right & Gnaphalium nitidulum left. Mt. Hotham

Ewartia nubigena. Mt. Hotham

Gentianella muelleriana ssp muelleriana (Muellers Gentian) 8th February 2016 (Chris)
Mt. Kosciusko

Gentianella muelleriana ssp muelleriana (Chris)
Flowers later in the season.
Mt. Kosciusko

Gentianella muelleriana ssp muelleriana (Chris Thank you)
Mt. Kosciusko

Goodenia hederacea. Bogong High Plains

Helichrysum acuminatum. Bogong High Plains

Helichrysum acuminatum in bud. Bogong High Plains

Helichrysum adenophorum Dinner Plain 2006

Helipterum albicans subsp alpine in bud, on the exposed feldmark areas of Mt Kosciusko 2006

Herpolirion novae-zelandiae. Bogong High Plains

Kunzea ericifolia. Bogong High Plains

Neopaxia australasica. Bogong High Plains

Nertera granadensis syn. depressa. Eastern Australia
this photo is from a cultivated plant.

Nertera  granadensis Kosciusko 1997

Nertera repens Dinner Plain Mt Hotham 2006

 Patersonia longiscapa. Long purple flag. Cape Liptrap Victoria

Patersonia longiscapa. Long purple flag. Damp Southern Heaths.

Pentachondra pumila. Bogong High Plains

Pimelea ligustrina. Bogong High Plains

Podolepis robusta in bud. Bogong High Plains

Podolepis robusta. Bogong High Plains (much loved by cattle)

Prasophyllum alpinum Leek orchid. Bogong High Plains

Prostanthera cunneata. Bogong High Plains

Pterostylis nutans. Green hood orchid.Tasmania

Ranunculus ? Mt Kosciusko

Ranunculus millanii in water, Mt Kosciusko

Ranunculus muelleri var. brevicaulis Mt. Kosciusko.

Ranunculus victoriensis. Bogong High Plains

Richea dracophylla Walls of Jerusalem Tasmania

Richea continentis. Bogong High Plains

Richea scoparia Tasmania

Scaevola hookeri. Bogong High Plains

Scleranthus biflorus in seed. Mt. Mc Kay

Sollya heterophylla Inverloch Victoria

Stackhousia pulvinaris. Bogong High Plains

Stylidium graminifolium. Bogong High Plains

Thelymitra venosa. Bogong High Plains

Trachymene humilis. Mt. Mc Kay.

Tripladenia cunninghamii (Otto)