General Native Vegetation Profile:
Upper Kyeamba
Creeklines and flats | Low to mid slopes | Upper slopes |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and flats | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Book Book area | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
+ E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
+ creekline only | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia genistifolia | Spreading/ Early Wattle |
# A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
# A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
+ Carex spp. | Sedge | |
+ Juncus spp. | Rush | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ creeklines/damp areas |
LANDFORM | Low to mid slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Kyeamba adamellite. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | “Talland” | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle / Lightwood | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. goniocalyx / E. nortonii | Long-leaf Box / Silver Bundy | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia genistifolia | Spreading / Early Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Aristida spp. | Wire Grass |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
+ Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Cheiranthera cyanea | Finger Flower | |
Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
Isotoma axillaris | Rock Isotome | |
Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
+ drainage lines |
LANDFORM | Upper slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Red Box/Red Stringybark woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Kyeamba adamellite. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Kyeamba/Kilgowla Mountain | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. doratoxylon | Currawang | |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
E.sideroxylon | Red/Mugga Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia genistifolia | Spreading / Early Wattle |
A. gunnii | Ploughshare Wattle | |
Cassinia longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
Cheiranthera cyanea | Finger Flower | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-bush | |
Grevillea lanigera | Woolly Grevillea | |
Putenaea foliolosa | Bush -pea | |
Styphelia triflora | Pink Five Corners | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida spp. | Wire Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
+ Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ drainage lines/damp areas |