The Native Plants of Adelaide: Returning the Vanishing Natural Heritage of the Adelaide Plains to Your Garden
- ISBN-10
- 186254879X
- ISBN-13
- 9781862548794
- Category
- Endemic plants
- Pages
- 132
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Authors
- Phil Bagust, Lynda Tout-Smith
Description
Locally indigenous natives are the plants that evolved to grow naturally in a particular area. In the case of the Adelaide metropolitan area, these plants remain almost unknown by the general public, largely because the unique native woodlands and wetlands of the Adelaide Plains have long since succumbed to urban development.
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