General Native Vegetation Profile:
Upper Sandy
Flats & lower slopes | Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines |
LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist Red podzolic (duplex) & non-calcic brown soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Sandy Creek/Mangoplah Road area | |
TREES >8M | * Eucalyptus albens | White Box |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
* E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
* rises | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wire Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
+ Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
Wahlenbergia spp. | Bluebell | |
+ drainage lines/ damp areas |
LANDFORM | Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Tumbledown Gum/Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels, schist & granite. Red podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (siliceous sands). | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Plum Pudding Hill/O’Brien’s Creek Road area | |
TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
* Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
+ E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
* E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
E. sideroxylon | Mugga/Red Ironbark | |
* Granite areas + drainage lines |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle | |
A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath |
+ Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Cheilanthes spp. | Rock Fern | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
+ Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Stypandra glauca |
Nodding Blue-lily | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
Wurmbea dioica | Early Nancy | |
+ drainage lines/soaks |