Trailing Hop-bush

Trailing Hop-bush
Trailing Hop-bush

Trailing Hop-bush

Dodonaea procumbens

Perennial. Grows in low-lying areas that are often wet in winter. 

Details Description
Type
Shrub
Group
Hop Bush
Identifying Characteristics

Low trailing shrub forming a ground-hugging mat up to 10 cm tall and 1 m wide. Leaves wedge-shaped, glossy, dark green, to 2 cm long and 8 mm wide. Flowers small with yellow, orange, red or pink petals. Flowers in spring.
Distinctive Features

Low spreading shrub with leaves that have up to four teeth at their tips.
Life Form Group
Shrub
Life Form Codes
Prostrate Shrub (PS)
EVC types
EVC 132_61: Heavier-soils Plains Grassland
Native Status
Native to Australia
Taxonomy
Phylum
Charophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Sapindales
Family
Sapindaceae
Genus
Dodonaea
Species
procumbens
Trailing Hop-bush
Occurs in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia.

Distribution maps indicate current and historic locations where species have been sighted.

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Endangered Status
DEPI Advisory List
Vulnerable
FFG Act
Not listed
EPBC Act
Vulnerable

The conservation status of species is listed within Victoria and Australia.

The Department of Environment and Primary Industry (DEPI) Advisory List consists of non-statutory advisory lists of rare or threatened flora and fauna within Victoria.

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (FFG Act) lists threatened species in Victoria. Under the Act, an Action Statement is produced for each listed species.

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is the Australian Government’s key piece of environmental legislation, listing nationally threatened native species and ecological communities.