New understanding of a rare plant brings back butterfly

Green Adelaide has partnered with the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre to undertake research on how to propagate the coastal saw-sedge plant. The coastal saw-sedge is vital to the survival of the golden-haired sedge-skipper butterfly, which is considered extinct in the Adelaide area. The plant not only provides food and shelter to the caterpillar, but the pupae (cocoon stage) is also formed with leaves of coastal saw-sedge wrapped together with silk.

The coastal saw-sedge also attracts a range of other native butterfly species and provides good habitat for lizards and birds.