Eryngium ovinum

Blue Devil at Hackett, ACT

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Identification history

	Eryngium ovinum	1 Jan 2021	Tapirlord
	Eryngium ovinum	1 Jan 2021	Avery

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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

At least 1 Abundance
1 Jan 2021 04:04 PM Recorded on
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Collections
Avery Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other Wildflowers & Herbs Plants

Additional information

Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

Eryngium ovinum Scientific name
Blue Devil Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 944m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
In flower

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania