General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lowbidgee
Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Shallow Depressions |
LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Redbank Weir. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana | River Oak | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crinum flaccidum | Darling Lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed |
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 | McFarlands State Forest, Quandong State Forest, Goonawarra Nature Reserve, Yanga Nature Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Acacia victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Haloragis aspera | Rough Raspwort | |
Mimulus gracilis | Slender Monkey flower | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Vittadinia cervicularis | Annual New Holland Daisy |
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 | Murrumbidgee River floodplain, Maude Rd south of Maude, Warwaegae Rd, Cobb Highway at One Tree. | |
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 lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Atriplex suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
Lavatera plebeia | Australian Hollyhock | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Lythrum hyssopifolia | Hyssop Loosestrife | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Rumex crystallinus | Shiny Dock | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
Typha orientalis | Cumbungi |