General Native Vegetation Profile:
Thugga & Culcairn East
Flats & lower slopes | Hills |
LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box woodlands & Grey Box woodlands | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – gravel, sand, silt & clay. Grey and brown clays/hard setting yellow soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Olympic Highway vicinity | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
+ E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
+ Billabong Creek | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
+ Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hop-bush | |
+ Billabong Creek * Western area of district |
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GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping/Berry Saltbush |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
D. longifolia | Smooth Flax-lily | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
+ Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
* Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
+ Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Templetonia stenophylla | Templetonia | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
* Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
* Creeks/soaks + Mainly along creek banks |
LANDFORM | Hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels, schist & porphyry. Sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Hills in ‘Boorook’ vicinity | |
TREES >8M |
Acacia implexa |
Hickory Wattle/Lightwood |
Allocasuarina verticillata |
Drooping Sheoak |
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Brachychiton populneus |
Kurrajong |
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Callitris glaucophylla |
White Cypress Pine |
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* Mainly S-SE aspect | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | ||
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa |
Sweet Bursaria |
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Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata |
Common Cassinia |
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Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima |
Narrow-leaf Hop-bush |
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D. viscosa subsp. cuneata |
Wedge-leaf Hop-bush |
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Dillwynia phylicoides spp. complex |
Small-leaf Parrot-pea |
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GROUND COVERS |
Austrostipa spp. |
Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra |
Red-leg Grass |
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Chloris truncata |
Windmill Grass |
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Rytidosperma spp. |
Wallaby Grass |
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Dianella revoluta |
Spreading Flax-lily |
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Glycine clandestina |
Twining Glycine |
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Hibbertia obtusifolia |
Grey Guinea-flower |
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Lissanthe strigosa |
Peach-heath |
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Lomandra spp. |
Mat-rush |
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Pimelea spp. |
Rice-flower |
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Themeda triandra |
Kangaroo Grass |