General Native Vegetation Profile:
Majors Creek
| LANDFORM |
Flats / plain |
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| VEGETATION TYPE |
River Red Gum woodland |
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| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Alluvial loams & clays. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE |
Murray River & Plain |
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| TREES >8M | ||
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* Callitris glaucophylla |
White Cypress Pine |
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* lighter soils |
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| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | ||
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Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa |
Sweet Bursaria |
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+ Callistemon sieberi |
River Bottlebrush |
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Exocarpos strictus |
Dwarf Cherry |
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+ Murray River bank |
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| GROUND COVERS |
Austrostipa spp. |
Spear Grass |
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Carex spp. |
Sedge |
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Rytidosperma spp. |
Wallaby Grass |
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Anthrosachne scaber |
Common Wheatgrass |
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Anthrosachne scaber |
Rush |
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Phragmites australis |
Common Reed |
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Poa labillardieri |
Tussock Grass |
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Sclerolaena muricata var. semiglabra |
Black Roly Poly |
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Typha spp. |
Cumbungi |
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| LANDFORM | Lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Red brown earths | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Moorwatha | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| Geijera parvifolia | Wilga | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
| A. deanei | Deane’s Wattle | |
| A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
| A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
| Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
| Myoporum montanum | Waterbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Gras | |
| + Carex spp. | Sedge | |
| Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Eryngium spp. | Blue Devil | |
| Glycine spp. | Glycine | |
| + Juncus spp. | Rush | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| + Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Pimelea curviflora var. sericea | Curved Rice Flower | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| + Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
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+ drainage lines |
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| LANDFORM | Hills | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Red brown earths. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | One Tree Hill | |
| TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
| * E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
| * eastern hills of catchment only | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
| A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| * A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
| A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
| Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
| Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
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* eastern hills of catchment only |
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| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass/Red Grass | |
| Burchardia umbellata | Milkmaids | |
| Calotis cuneifolia | Burr Daisy | |
| Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi | Rock Fern | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Rytidosperma spp | Wallaby Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral-pea | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| Pimelea curviflora var. sericea | Curved Rice-flower | |
| Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |