Species Guide — Plant Life — Ground Covers

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Subcategory: Ground Covers

Ground Covers

9 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Australian Pig Face

Carpobrotus rossii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Beaded Samphire

Sarcocornia quinqueflora

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Beaded Samphire

Salicornia quinqueflora

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Acaena novae-zelandiae

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Tetragonia implexicoma

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dichondra repens

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

New Zealand Celery

Apium prostratum var. filiforme

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Running Postman

Kennedia prostrata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Acaena pallida

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A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii