Botanical Name: Persicaria decipiens
Common Name: Slender Knotweed
Type: Herb Aquatic/Wetland prostrate to 60cm
Features:
- Spreading perennial herb, rooting at the leaf nodes
- Leaves often have dark blotches
- Bright pink flowers on a slender spike; December to April
- Seeds are an important food source for waterbirds
Requirements:
- Full sun to full shade
- Permanent to seasonally wet sites
Plant Fact Sheets
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- Acacia stricta
- Acacia suaveolens
- Acacia verticillata ssp verticillata
- Acaena novae-zelandiae
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- Allocasuarina paludosa
- Allocasuarina verticillata
- Arthropodium strictum
- Atriplex cinerea
- Austrostipa flavescens
- Austrostipa mollis
- Austrostipa stipoides
- Baloskion tetraphyllum
- Banksia integrifolia
- Banksia marginata
- Bossiaea cinerea
- Bursaria spinosa
- Carex appressa
- Carpobrotus rossii
- Cassinia aculeata
- Centella cordifolia
- Chrysocephalum apiculatum
- Clematis aristata
- Clematis microphylla
- Coprosma quadrifida
- Coronidium scorpioides
- Correa alba
- Crassula helmsii
- Cycnogeton procerum
- Cynoglossum australe
- Dianella brevicaulis
- Dianella revoluta
- Dianella tasmanica
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- Disphyma crassifolium
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- Eucalyptus obliqua
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- Eucalyptus pauciflora
- Eucalyptus radiata
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- Ficinia nodosa
- Gahnia sieberiana
- Glycine clandestina
- Goodenia humilis
- Goodenia ovata
- Goodia lotifolia
- Gratiola peruviana
- Gynatrix pulchella
- Hakea nodosa
- Hakea ulicina
- Hibbertia sericea
- Indigofera australis
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- Leptospermum myrsinoides
- Leucophyta brownii
- Leucopogon parviflorus
- Liparophyllum exaltatum
- Lobelia anceps
- Lomandra longifolia
- Lythrum salicaria
- Machaerina rubiginosa
- Melaleuca ericifolia
- Melaleuca squarrosa
- Melicytus dentatus
- Microlaena stipoides
- Microseris sp.
- Myoporum insulare
- Myriophyllum crispatum
- Olearia axillaris
- Olearia glutinosa
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- Olearia phlogopappa
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