A large tussock to about 1 metre. The edges of the leaves are somewhat saw-toothed. The flowering stems are distinctly triangular in cross-section in common with most other

A large shrub, sometimes attaining the stature of a small tree. Narrow, stiff green leaves are produced in a fine dense canopy. Bark is fine grey and fissured.
The flowers are smaller than the familiar cultivated forms of bittlebrush (mainly C. citrinus and C. viminalis and their many cultivars)and usually cream, although often with a pink tinge.
Very large speciments growing along creeks may develop attractive gnarled trunks.

A distinctive stiff, thistle-like plant which is actually in the Parsley and Celery family (Apiacea). A rosette of very spiny, shiny, dark green leaves emerge from underground rootstock in winter. As the rosette of leaves matures in late spring, spiny thistle-like flower-heads emerge from the centre of the rosette. The large upright first flower-head is surrounded by spiny bracts.

A common colonising species with softly hairy greyish, toothed leaves. Younger plants may be less hairy. The flowers are produced at the end of a long ovary and are white. These are shy to open, like many in this family, they may be night blooming. The seed pods split to release the seeds on plumes that catch the wind.

Slender upright grass with variable leaves. The blades are usually glabrous but the sheaths are softly hairy or scabrous. The 'ligule' (structure of the junction where the leaf angles away from the culm) includes a pair of slender, pointed extentions wrap around the stem like an untied bow tie.