The plants of conservation significance on this block are orchids, small herbs, sedges and lilies and a couple of prostrate shrubs. Some of them have attractive flowers, but many would go unnoticed by any but the careful and interested observer. Some of them are more common in the dry mallee of Victoria and the western district of NSW. Their occurence in the Midlands reflects the low rainfall. Such outlying occurences are potentially important because of possible genetic differences from the mainland populations of the species.
Plant species of conservation significance in Sherwood Bush, Epping Forest
Species known only from this site in Tasmania:
- Triptilodiscus pygmaeus (common sunray)
Species known only from Epping Forest in Tasmania:
- Pultenaea humilis (dwarf bush pea)
Species reserved only at Epping Forest in Tasmania:
- Amphibromus macrorhinus
- Aphelia gracilis (slender aphelia)
- A. pumilio (dwarf aphelia)
- Cyperus tenellus
- Haloragis heterophylla
- Hyalosperma demissum
- Hypoxis vaginata
- Myriopyllum integrifoliu
- Rutidosis multiflorae
Other species of significance that are either poorly reserved or rare in Tasmania:
- Arthropodium minus (small vanilla lily)
- A. strictum
- Ptilotus spathulatus (pussy tails)
- Caesia parviflora (pale grass lily)
- Caladenia aff. gracilis
- Caladenia clavigera (clubbed or small spider orchid)
- Caladenia fuscata
- Calochilus imberbis (beard orchid)
- Dichopogon strictus (chocolate lily)
- Glycine latrobeana (dwarf glycine)
- Millotia tenuifolia (soft millotia)
- Opercularia ovata
- Schoenus absconditus
- Spyridium vexilliferum (winged spyridium)
- Stenanthemum pimeleoides
- Viola hederacea ssp. cleistogama (violet)