General Native Vegetation Profile:
Booroorban (southern)
| Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Shallow Depressions |
Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains |
| 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 | Edward River frontage, Billabong Creek. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Cyperus exaltatus | Giant Sedge | |
| Arthropodium fimbriatum | Nodding Chocolate-lily | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
| 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 | |
| Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
| Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed | |
| 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 | Dry Lake on Moulamein Rd, Coopers Swamp and Black Swamp on the Cobb Hwy north of Wanganella. | |
| 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 | |
| Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
| Eleocharis plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
| Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
| Juncus radula | Hoary Rush | |
| Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
| Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
| Typha orientalis | Cumbungi | |
| 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 | Floodplains of Coleambally and Billabong Creeks. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Eremophila maculata | Spotted Fuchsia | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |
| Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf | |