General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lunts Sugarloaf
Flats and lower slopes | Hills |
LANDFORM | Flats and lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum/Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay (flats). Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist (slopes). Sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Intersection of Little Billabong & Hume Highway | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
# A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
+ soaks/ poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for replanting |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Borthriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
+ Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
+ Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ creeks/soaks/drainage lines |
LANDFORM | Hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE |
Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Stringybark, Long-leaf Box (lower reaches) Dry sclerophyll forest – Peppermint, Brittle Gum (upper reaches) |
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GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Shallow red & yellow sandy soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Eastern region of catchment | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
* A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
+* E. camphora | Mountain Swamp Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
* E. mannifera | Brittle Gum | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
* E. robertsonii | Robertson’s Peppermint | |
E. rossii | Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum | |
+ creeks/soaks * upper reaches, mainly above 500 m elevation |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia decora | Western Golden Wattle |
# A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
D. leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
# Dillwynia phylicoides | Parrot-pea | |
# Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
Kunzea parvifolia | Violet Kunzea | |
# Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
# not noted in area but suggested for replanting |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Brachyloma daphnoide | Daphne Heath | |
Bracteantha spp. | Everlasting Daisy | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
H. sericea | Silky Guinea-flower | |
Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby | |
Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus |
Urn Heath | |
Microlaena stipoides |
Weeping Grass | |
Stypandra glauca |
Nodding Blue-lily | |
Themeda triandra |
Kangaroo Grass |