National Recovery Plan review, population census and reintroduction trial Southern Shepherd’s Purse (Ballantinia antipoda) is a nationally endangered diminutive annual forb endemic to South-east Australia where it has been collected from a variety of locations across central Victoria and the southern Midlands of Tasmania. By the early 1980’s it was thought to be extinct due to habitat loss, but was ‘rediscovered’ growing is shallow soil moss mats on outcropping granite at high elevation on Mount Alexander near Harcourt in 1983. … Continue reading Southern Shepherd’s Purse