General Native Vegetation Profile:
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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 understorey of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murrumbidgee floodplain around Hay, scattered creeklines along the Lachlan Valley Way south-east of Hillston. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena birchii | Galvanised Bassia | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Rumex tenax | Dock | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio quadridentatus | Cotton Fireweed | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander |
LANDFORM | Shallow Depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermittent flooding. Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Booligal State Forest, Cabbage Garden Creek, Muckerumba Swamp. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa | Native Liquorice | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Atriplex suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Cressa australis | Rosinweed | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
Juncus radula | Hoary Rush | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | One Tree exclosure plot, Booligal Rd approx. 10 km south-east of Booligal. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum | Plains Lantern bush |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Frankenia connata | Clustered Sea-heath | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Cotula bipinnata | Ferny Cotula | |
Daucus glochidiatus | Australian Carrot | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass |