Marraweeney - Wonganookah Wildflower Walk
An easy and pretty 4.9km walk through a herb rich Peppermint Gum Forest Bushland Reserve. The walk includes a return stretch along the attractive Wonganookah Track.
The Wonganookah Track and Boho Bushland Reserve can certainly be enjoyed any time of year. However, spring does see the growth of a diversity of wildflowers that add a special quality to your walking. Once you discover one species, you can't stop looking for the next one. Markers on the map identify roughly where each species was found.
The tall Peppermint Gum moist forest of the Boho Bushland Reserve is approximately 12ha. It has a herb rich grassy ground layer and an abundant mid story of Acacias, Bush Cherry and Dogwood. However, it is not so busy you can't readily free range across the Reserve to explore and discover.
There is a pleasant walk up and back along the undulating Wonganookah Track. There are plenty of observations to make along the way here as well.
Wonganookah Wildflower Walk Map
Interactive map
Points of Interest:
1. Parking
There is plenty of room for parking at the eastern end of Wonganookah Track.
2. Wetland
This unexpected wetland features early in the walk.
3. Forest birds
There are an abundance of forest birds to hear and see, such as a Spotted Pardalote.
4. Easy walking
Wonganookah Track is an easy walk through attractive forest along a two wheel dirt track. There is a mild rise at the beginning of the return leg.
5. Explore the Bushland Reserve
Take the first foot trail on the right to enter the Bushland. This is open woodland, so you can choose to stick to this trail to and from the track or free range. At only 12ha, you can't get lost.
6. Creamy Candles
Stackhousia monogyna are a perennial herb with flower laden spikes of up to 30cm high.
7. Twining Glycine
Glycine clandestina is an indigenous climber ascending to 2m in height.
8. Common Bird Orchids
Finding an orchid during wildflower season is always a treat. Chiloglottis valida is a terrestrial orchid to 7cm. It has a deep throat that provides an attractive runway for a pollinating wasp.
9. Nodding Greenhood Orchid and Cicada shell
Pterostylis nutrans has an almost translucent flower.
10. Kangaroo Apple
Solanum aviculare has purple flowers forming fruit that ripen from orange to red
11. Handsome Flat-pea
Platylobium formosum is a shrub of up to 1.5m with showy yellow and red flowers that make for a bright contrast against the greens of the bush.
12. Purple Coral Pea
Hardenbergia violacea is a vigorous climber that adds anything from dashes to masses of colour along the track.
Access for Dogs:
Dogs are not permitted.
Location
Cnr Wonganookah Track and Bonnie Doon Road, Marraweeney 3669 Map
