Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Husbandry Manual - Marsupial and ...

Plants eaten in the wild (1=Lim et al, 1987;1A=Lim et al, 1992; 2=Lapidge, 1997)
Seasonal preference notes from Lim et al, 1992; IS = introduced species:
1. Grasses
Aristida nitidula (1, 1A, 2) summer
Chloris ssp. (1A)
Cymbopogon ambiguus (1, 1A, 2)
summer
Digitaria brownii (1A, 2)
Enneapogon spp. (1, 1A) winter
Paspalidium bascladum (1,1A, 2)
spring / summer
Sporobolus spp. (1A)
Stipa variabilis (1, 1A, 2)
winter / spring / summer
Themeda australis (1, 1A, 2) summer
Triodia irritans (1, 1A, 2)
spring / summer
Tripogon loliiformis (1, 1A) spring
Triraphis mollis (1A)
Vulpia myuros (IS) (1, 1A) winter
2. Forbs – herbs other than grass
Boerhavia spp. (1, 1A) summer
Calandrinia spp. (1, 1A, 2)
spring / summer
Carthamus lanatus (IS) (1, 1A) summer
Cheilanthes spp. (1, 2) winter / spring
Cyanoglossum australe (1A, 2)
Echium plantagineum (IS) (1, 2)
winter / spring
Euphorbia stevenii (2)
Helichrysum ambiguum (1, 1A) winter
Medicago denticulata (IS) (1, 1A, 2)
winter / spring
Nicotiana velutina (1, 1A, 2) summer
Oxalis corniculata (1, 1A) spring
Parietaria debilis (1, 1A) summer
Psoralea patens (1A, 2)
Senecio spp. (1A, 2)
Sisymbrium orientale (IS) (1, 1A)
summer
Sonchus oleraceus (IS) (1, 1A) spring
Vittadinia triloba (1A, 2)
Zygophyllum sp. (1, 1A) early summer
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3. Chenopods
Atriplex eardleyae (1, 1A) summer
Enchylaena tomentosa (1, 1A, 2)
summer
Maireana radiata (1A, 2)
Rhagodia sp. (1, 1A) summer
Sclerolaena spp. (1A)
4. Browse
Acacia spp (1, 1A)
Alectryon oleifolium (1A)
Callitris columellaris (1, 1A, 2) spring
Capparis mitchelli (1A, 2)
Cassia desolata (2)
Cassinia laevis (1, 1A, 2)
winter / summer / autumn
Casuarina cristata (1A)
Dodonaea spp. (1, 1A) summer
Eremophila freelingii (2)
Eremophila longifolia (1, 1A, 2) all
Goodenia albiflora (1, 1A)
spring / summer
Prostanthera striatiflora (1, 1A) autumn
Teucrium corymbosum (1, 1A) summer
5. Plants with stellate trichomes
Abutilon leucopetalum (1A, 2)
Abutilon otocarpum (1, 1A) summer
Ptilotus obovatus (1, 1A, 2)
summer / autumn
Sida calyxhymenia (1A)
summer / autumn
Solanum petrophilum (1, 1A, 2) all
Solanum sturtianum (1, 1A) summer
Sida petrophila (1, 2)