General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lowbidgee (western)
| Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Sandplains and Low Rises | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests |
| 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 | Sandplains and Low Rises | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Belah – Rosewood Woodland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes. Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Formerly a small area east of Kieeta Creek near Balranald, nearest example is on the Sturt Highway west of The Willows. | |
| TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
| Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
| Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
| Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia colletioides | Spine Bush |
| Acacia melvillei | Myall | |
| Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
| Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
| Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
| Templetonia egena | Desert Broombush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
| Atriplex eardleyae | Small Saltbush | |
| Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
| Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
| Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
| Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Maireana pentatropis | Erect Mallee Bluebush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Maireana radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
| Maireana triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
| Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Olearia magniflora | Splendid Daisy-bush | |
| Olearia muelleri | Mueller Daisy-bush | |
| Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
| Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Scleroblitum atriplicinum | Purple Goosefoot | |
| Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
| Sclerolaena obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
| GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
| Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
| Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
| Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
| Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Geococcus pusillus | Earth Cress | |
| Goodenia pinnatifida | Scrambled Eggs | |
| Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
| Lavatera plebeia | Australian Hollyhock | |
| Leucochrysum molle | Hoary Sunray | |
| Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
| Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
| Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
| Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
| Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Rhodanthe floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
| Rhodanthe polygalifolia | Brilliant Sunray | |
| Rhodanthe stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Vittadinia condyloides | Club hair New Holland Daisy | |
| Zygophyllum ammophilum | Sand Twinleaf | |
| Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
| Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf | |
| LANDFORM | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Mallee Woodland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts. Aeolian, sandy red loams. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Hatfield Rd approx 10km north of Balranald to Penarie. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| Acacia victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Eucalyptus dumosa | Congoo Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus gracilis | Yorrell | |
| Eucalyptus oleosa | Red Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus porosa | Quorn Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus socialis | Pointed Mallee | |
| Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex acutibractea subsp. acutibractea | Pointed Saltbush |
| Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Maireana erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
| Maireana pentatropis | Erect Mallee Bluebush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Maireana radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
| Maireana triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
| Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena patenticuspis | Spear fruit Copperburr | |
| Westringia rigida | Stiff Western Rosemary | |
| Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass |
| Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
| Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
| Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
| Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Elachanthus pusillus | Elachanth | |
| Haloragis aspera | Rough Raspwort | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
| Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Rhodanthe stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
| Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
| Vittadinia cervicularis | Annual New Holland Daisy | |
| Zygophyllum ammophilum | Sand Twinleaf | |
| Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
| Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum crenatum | Lobed Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum simile | White Twinleaf | |