General Native Vegetation Profile:
Four corners (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 | Billabong Creek, Sheep Wash Creek. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. pendula | Boree | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Dillwynia cinerascens | Grey Parrot-pea |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
C. tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Crinum flaccidum | Darling Lily | |
Dianella porracea var. longifolia | Smooth Flax-lily | |
Dichondra repens | Kidneyweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Goodenia heteromera | Spreading Goodenia | |
Isolepis victoriensis | Victorian Club sedge | |
Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myosurus minimus var. australis | Mouse tail | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
Scleranthus minusculus | Cushion Knawel | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Vallisneria australis | Eel-weed | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell |
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 | Oolambeyan National Park. | |
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 divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Cressa australis | Rosinweed | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
E. plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
J. flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
M. enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
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 | Oolambeyan National Park, Coleambally Creek (outfall drain), Booroorban State Forest. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. pendula | Boree | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Eremophila deserti | Ellangowan Poison-bush | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
S. divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Calotis cuneata | Mountain Burr daisy | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
M. pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
S. quadridentatus | Cotton Fireweed | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf |