New Zealand Native Grasses & Flaxes

• Grass species indigenous & endemic to New Zealand, with their cultivars. Including strap-leaved foliage plants such as Phormium, Astelia, Arthropodium and Aciphylla

Aciphylla aurea - golden speargrass, taramea
- GROWING NEAR MIDDLEMARCH, OTAGO
Aciphylla colensoi - speargrass, spaniard
Aciphylla dieffenbachii - soft speargrass, Coxella
- SOFT SPEARGRASS FLOWER
Aciphylla glaucescens - speargrass
- FOLIAGE CLOE-UP PHOTO
Aciphylla squarrosa - speargrass
Aciphylla subflabellata - taramea, speargrass
- FLOWER SPIKE
ANEMANTHELE - Gossamer grass gallery

Anemanthele lessoniana - bamboo grass, hunangamoho
Arthropodium candidum - small renga lily, repehinapapa
Arthropodium cirratum 'Matapouri Bay' - rengarenga
Arthropodium cirratum 'White Knight' - New Zealand rock lily
Arthropodium cirratum - NZ / rengarenga / rock lily

ASTELIA - New Zealand bush flax image gallery

Astelia 'Alpine Ruby' - kakaha cultivar
Astelia chathamica 'Silver Spear' - silver spear
Astelia chathamica - silver spear
Astelia fragrans - bush lily, bush flax, kakaha
- ORANGE FRUIT
Astelia nervosa - mountain Astelia
Astelia petriei
Astelia 'Red Devil' - kakaha cultivar
Astelia 'Westland' - kakaha cultivar
CAREX - New Zealand native grasses image gallery

Chionochloa beddiei - tussock grass
Chionochloa conspicua - plume snow tussock grass, hunangamoho
Chionochloa flavicans - snow tussock grass
- CHIONOCHLOA WEEPING STREAMSIDE GRASS - AS BORDER EDGING GRASS
- CHIONOCHLOA FLAVICANS PLUME FLOWERS
Chionochloa rigida - tussock grass
- A GRACEFUL TUSSOCK GRASS
- TUSSOCK GRASS FLOWERS - GREAT FOR WATERSIDE PLANTING
Chionochloa rubra - red / copper tussock grass

CORDYLINE - New Zealand Cabbage Tree image gallery

Cortaderia richardii - toetoe
- FLOWER - SCENIC
Cortaderia turbaria - toetoe
Desmoschoenus spiralis - pingao
Dianella nigra syn. intermedia - inkberry, New Zealand blueberry, turutu
Dianella nigra 'Margaret Pringle' - inkberry, NZ blueberry, turutu
- INKBERRY BERRIES
Festuca coxii - blue tussock grass
- FOLIAGE AND FLOWERS
Festuca novae-zelandiae - tussock grass, hard tussock
- FESCUE TUSSOCK GRASS FLOWERS
- TUSSOCK GRASSES AT MIDDLEMARCH, S. ISLAND
Festuca ovina var. novae-zelandiae (synonym for above)
Gahnia rigida - tarangarara

Hierochloe redolens - scented holy grass, karetu
Juncus gregiflorus - common rush
Libertia grandiflora - New Zealand iris, mikoikoi
- LIBERTIA FLOWERING ORNAMENTAL GRASS - NZ IRIS BERRIES CLOSEUP
Libertia ixioides - New Zealand iris, mikoikoi
- AUTUMN SEED CAPSULES ON A SUNNY DAY - VARIEGATED FOLIAGE UP CLOSE
Libertia peregrinans - New Zealand iris, sand iris
- LIBERTIA STRIKING CONTRAST WITH HEBE - LIBERTIA IN POOR DRY SOIL
Libertia 'Taupo Sunset' - cultivar of L. ixioides
Machaerina sinclairii - pepepe
Microlaena avenacea - bush rice grass
Oryzopsis rigida - see Anemanthele lessoniana
PHORMIUM - New Zealand Flax image gallery

Poa chathamica - bog Poa
Poa colensoi - blue tussock grass
Stipa arundinacea - see Anemanthele lessoniana
Uncinia egmontiana
- YOUNG RED FOLIAGE PHOTOGRAPH - DEW DROP CLOSE-UP OF TERACOTTA FOLIAGE
Uncinia strictissima
Uncinia uncinata - hook-sedge / grass, watau
Uncinia uncinata 'Rubra' - hook-sedge / grass, watau
- RED FOLIAGE - MORE RED UNCINIA

 

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