This website aims to describe all the native plants of the Macedon Range together with some additional species of interest from surrounding areas within the Shire of Macedon Ranges.

The Macedon Range is located 60km north-west of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). Its highest peak is Mount Macedon which is also the highest mountain west of Melbourne on the Great Dividing Range.

The Range extends from Woodend to Riddells Creek where it meets Melbourne’s western plains and includes Mt. Macedon, Mt. Towrong, Kerrie, Barringo, Mt. Robertson, Conglomerate Gully, Mt. Teneriffe, T-Hill and Mt. Charlie.

Macedon Regional Park.

Mount Charlie Flora Reserve.

Conglomerate Gully Flora Reserve

Mt Teneriffe Trust for Nature Reserve.

Reserve. T-Hill Flora Reserve

Barringo Reserve.

Stanley Park

The flora of the drier hills at the eastern end of the range has been described in a book on the flora of Barrm Birrm, Riddells Creek by Russell Best and David Francis.

Significance of the Macedon Range Flora. Within the relatively small area of the Macedon Range there is a wide diversity of plant communities occupying the varying environments provided by different altitudes, aspects and soils.

Sheltered gullies with towering Mountain Ash trees and giant ferns can be found within short distances of sub-alpine low woodland dominated by Snow Gums. Lower down, the thickly forested slopes give way to the more open dry forests of the foothills and the surrounding grasslands of the Victorian volcanic plains.

The Macedon Ranges are a section of the Great Dividing Range that has been cut off from the higher ranges east of Melbourne by a low, wide gap near Kilmore. Having the highest peak in the western highlands, the Macedon Range can be considered to be an outlier of the eastern highlands with floristic affinities to that area.

A number of plants generally confined to the eastern highlands can be found at Mount Macedon at the most western limit of their ranges.

Examples of these are the Alpine Ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) and Mountain Beard-heath (Acrothamnus hookeri).

Other species following a similar distribution are the Sharp Beard-heath (Leucopogon fraseri) and the Mountain Tea-tree (Leptospermum grandifolium), both recently discovered at Mount Macedon.