General Native Vegetation Profile:
Conoble (eastern)
Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Shallow Depressions | Level to Depressed Plains |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Box Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Black Box woodland with often sparse understorcy of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Willandra Creek in Willandra NP, Merrowie Creek | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla |
River Cooba |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largijlorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old Man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Sahbush | |
Sclerolaena bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
Sclerolaena lntrlcata | Tangled Poverty-Bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera nodiflora | Common Joyweed | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White-top | |
Austrostipa scabra ssp falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Centipeda minima | Spreading Sneezeweed | |
Centipeda thespidioides | Desert Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat spurge | |
Convolvulus remotus | Grassy Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogan acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Goodenia heteromera | Spreading Goodenia | |
Haloragis aspera | Rough Raspwort | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
Juncus subsecundus | Finger Rush | |
Mentha australis | River Mint | |
Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Pratia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Currugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Typha orientalis | Cumbungi |
LANDFORM | Shallow Depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermitten flooding. Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Willandra Creek at the Cobb Highway crossing, south of lvanhoe. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum |
Plains Lantern-bush |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Black Rolypoly | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Atriplex suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Austrostipa scabra ssp falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
Juncus radula | Hoary Rush | |
Lavatera plebia | Australian Hollyhook | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Lythrum hyssopifolia | Hyssop Loosestrife | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Wooly-heads | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Rumex crystallinus | Shiny Dock | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Boree Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey. Alluvial, grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Eastern end of Trida Rd near Roto. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |