General Native Vegetation Profile:
Mates Gully
| Lower slopes | Upper slopes | |
| LANDFORM | Lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Box woodland (eg. Red Box) | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel. Yellow solonetzic (mottled duplex) & red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Sturt Highway to Hume Highway (Tarcutta Road) | |
| TREES >8M | ||
| + creeklines only | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | ||
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+ Leptospermum continentale |
Prickly Tea-tree |
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+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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| GROUND COVERS |
#+ Carex spp. |
Sedge |
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Chrysocephalum apiculatum |
Yellow Buttons |
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# Dianella revoluta |
Spreading Flax-lily |
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#+ Juncus spp. |
Rush |
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# Maireana microphylla |
Eastern Cottonbush |
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# Poa spp. |
Tussock Grass |
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+ drainage lines/poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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| LANDFORM | Upper slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Box, Red Stringybark, & Ironbark woodlands | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Mates Gully Reserve (R.L.P.B.) | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| E. rossii | Scribbly Gum | |
| E. sideroxylon | Mugga/Red Ironbark | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle |
| A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Cassinia sifton | Dolly Bush | |
| Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
| Dillwynia phylicoides species complex | Small-leaf Parrot-pea | |
| Grevillea floribunda | Seven Dwarfs Grevillea | |
| Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
| Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
| Styphelia triflora | Pink Five Corners | |
| GROUND COVERS | Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath |
| + Carex spp. | Sedge | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Yellow Buttons | |
| Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
| D. revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
| Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
| Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
| Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
| Xanthorrhoea spp. | Grass-tree | |
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+ drainage lines/poorly drained sites |
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