General Native Vegetation Profile:
Coleambally (southern)
| Level to Depressed Plains | Plains | Gilgai 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 | Ugobit Travelling Stock Reserve, German Yards Travelling Stock Reserve, Jerrys Travelling Stock Reserve, McPhails Travelling Stock Reserve, Jukes Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black 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 | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata | Spring pod Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
| Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Calocephalus citreus | Lemon Beauty-heads | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
| Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
| Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
| LANDFORM | Plains | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Native Grassland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Treeless grassland on plains with seasonally variable composition of herbs, grasses and low shrubs. Alluvial, mainly red-brown clays and grey-brown cracking clays. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Urana – Jerilderie Road Travelling Stock Reserve, Bundure Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia pendula | Boree |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
| Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Rytidosperma eriantha | Hill Wallaby Grass | |
| Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
| Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Brachyscome chrysoglossa | Yellow tongue Daisy | |
| Brachyscome muelleroides | Mueller Daisy | |
| Bulbine bulbosa | Native Leek | |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
| Daucus glochidiatus | Australian Carrot | |
| Arthropodium fimbriatum | Nodding Chocolate-lily | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Enteropogon ramosus | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Goodenia fascicularis | Silky Goodenia | |
| Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
| Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
| Leptorhynchos panaetioides | Woolly Buttons | |
| Leptorhynchos squamatus | Scaly Buttons | |
| Leucochrysum molle | Hoary Sunray | |
| Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Maireana excavata | Bottle Fissure weed | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
| Ptilotus macrocephalus | Square headed Foxtail | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
| Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
| Swainsona plagiotropis | Red Darling Pea | |
| Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea | |
| Swainsona swainsonioides | Downy Darling Pea | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Wahlenbergia luteola | Yellowish Bluebell | |
| LANDFORM | Gilgai Plains | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Gilgai Wetland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Treeless grassland on seasonally wet plains with mainly herbaceous understorey. Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Narrandera Rd 7 km north of Urana, swamp on Morundah, south west of Narrandera. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia pendula | Boree |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
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| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
| Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
| Bulbine semibarbata | Leek Lily | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
| Centrolepis glabra | Smooth Centrolepis | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Crassula decumbens var. decumbens | Spreading Crassula | |
| Eclipta platyglossa | Yellow Twin heads | |
| Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Eryngium paludosum | Eryngo | |
| Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Isoetopsis graminifolia | Grass Cushion | |
| Isolepis hookeriana | Grassy Club sedge | |
| Isolepis victoriensis | Victorian Club sedge | |
| Juncus radula | Hoary Rush | |
| Lepidium monoplocoides | Winged Peppercress | |
| Leptorhynchos orientale (ex L. scaber) | Annual Buttons | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Myosurus minimus var. australis | Mouse tail | |
| Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
| Myriophyllum crispatum | Common Water-milfoil | |
| Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Ranunculus pentandrus var. platycarpus | Smooth Buttercup | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Rumex tenax | Dock | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Stylidium despectum | Dwarf Triggerplant | |
| Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
| Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |
| Utricularia dichotoma | Purple Bladderwort | |
| Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy | |