General Native Vegetation Profile:
Carrathool (western)
| Level to Depressed Plains | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | Level to Depressed Plains |
| 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 | Gum Creek. | |
| TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
| Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
| Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
| 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 | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata | Spring pod Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium | Peppercress | |
| Maireana excavata | Bottle Fissure weed | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
| Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
| Thysanotus baueri | Mallee Fringe lily | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
| LANDFORM | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples remain, disturbed example of a prior stream on Wrights Lane 5 km north of Carrathool. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
| Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle |
| Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
| Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
| Acacia pendula | Boree | |
| Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
| Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi | Mulga Fern | |
| Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
| Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy | |
| 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 | Mid Western Highway 25 – 45 km north of Hay. | |
| TREES >8M | ??? | ??? |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum | Plains Lantern bush |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
| Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon ramosus | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Erodium crinitum | Blue Crowfoot | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
| Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
| Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea | |