Contractors engaged by Parks Victoria have found an endangered plant while controlling African Box Thorn and African Boneseed in Clydebank Morass Wildlife Reserve. While Salt Lawrencia (Lawrencia spicata) is known to occur in a few locations in the Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park and Lake Tyers, this is the first sighting in reserves around Clydebank Morass.

Salt Lawrencia is listed as Endangered in Victoria and mainly prefers coastal saltmarsh habitat. The Gippsland Lakes are a unique and internationally significant landscape home to a variety of rare and endangered plants and animals. The aim of controlling priority weeds in the Gippsland Lakes is to improve the condition of fringing and freshwater wetland habitats for all native plants and animals.

📷Image of Salt Lawrencia above, supplied by SEEDS Bushland Restoration