Blue Devil at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Eryngium ovinum | 1 Jan 2021 | Tapirlord | ||
| Eryngium ovinum | 1 Jan 2021 | Avery |
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User's notes
Being in a park, along a route commonly used to access the reserve, suggests that it was spread by a walker. Somebody has clearly tried to arrange some protection for it. I walked past there yesterday without seeing it.
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Avery
wrote:
16 Jan 2022
Since this sighting, which has been relocated a few meters away to a 'no mow' zone, 2 additional colonies have been discovered, one of 2 happily already in a projected no mow zone, and another, near the end of the slippery dip, discovered by Chris Mobbs, to have had 9 (!!) individuals in an area c 1m square, some of them plausibly yearlings, others that must have been around considerably longer. These are being relocated. But the evidence that they can survive a certain amount of attention from the (not extremely assiduous) park mowing is perhaps interesting. Maybe there are more colonies there and in similar places!
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.165486-35.253374
- Altitude 649.0m
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 1 Jan 2021 04:04 PM Recorded on
- Avery Recorded by
Additional information
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Species information
- Eryngium ovinum Scientific name
- Blue Devil Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 820.89m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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