General Native Vegetation Profile:
The Rock - Henty - Milbrulong Region
Low hills | Flats & slight rises | High rocky outcrop | Low rises |
LANDFORM | Low hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Cypress Pine & Yellow Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Red & red-brown earths. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Milbrulong State Forest | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia hakeoides | Hakea Wattle |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hop-bush | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Bracteanta viscosa | Sticky Everlasting |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Pimelea spp. | Rice-flower | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
Templetonia stenophylla | Templetonia |
LANDFORM | Flats & slight rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box/Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Unconsolidated riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Grey and brown clays. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Grubben/Bullenbung area | |
TREES >8M | Acacia pendula | Myall |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
+ E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. macrocarpa | Grey Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
A. flexifolia | Bent-leaf Wattle | |
A. hakeoides | Hakea Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hop-bush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Berrigan | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush-pea | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
LANDFORM | High rocky outcrop | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Dwyer’s Red Gum & Black Cypress Pine woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite Lithosols (earthy soils) | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | The Rock Nature Reserve | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
A. verticillate | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. macrocarpa | Grey Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. deanei | Deane’s Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
A. gunnii | Ploughshare Wattle | |
A. linearifolia | Stringybark Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Cassinia laevis | Cough Bush | |
Dillwynia juniperina | Prickly Parrot-pea | |
Grevillea floribunda | Seven Dwarfs Grevillea | |
Indigofera spp. | Austral/Tick Indigo | |
Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
P. largiflorens | Twiggy Bush-pea | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
GROUND COVERS |
Astroloma humifusum |
Native Cranberry |
Brachyloma daphnoides |
Daphne Heath |
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Chrysocephalum apiculatum |
Yellow Buttons |
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Cryptandra amara |
Pretty Cryptandra |
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Rytidosperma spp. |
Wallaby Grass |
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Dianella revoluta |
Spreading Flax-lily |
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Dillwynia sericea |
Showy Parrot-pea |
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Einadia nutans |
Climbing Saltbush |
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Glycine canescens |
Silky Glycine |
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Lissanthe strigose |
Peach Heath |
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Stypandra glauca |
Nodding Blue-lily |
LANDFORM | Low rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box/Blakely’s Red Gum/Grey Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Unconsolidated deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel. Red podzolic (duplex soil). | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | East of The Rock & Burkes Creek | |
TREES >8M | * Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
+ A. leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E.melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
* Burkes Creek + north of Yerong Creek |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | A. decora | Western Silver Wattle |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
* Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush-pea | |
* Burkes Creek |
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GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wire Grass |
Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Yellow Buttons | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheat-grass | |
Glycine clandestine | Twining Glycine | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Wahlenbergia spp. | Bluebell |