General Native Vegetation Profile:
Murrakool
| 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 | Campbells Island State Forest, Murray River frontage. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Alternanthera denticulata | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| R. duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
| Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
| Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
| Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
| Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
| Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
| C. inversa | Knob Sedge | |
| C. tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
| Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
| Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Myriophyllum crispatum | Common Water-milfoil | |
| M. papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Plantago cunninghamii | Sago weed | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
| 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 | Wilsons Lake between Swan Hill and Toomah. | |
| 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 | |
| S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
| E. plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
| J. flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
| J. radula | Hoary Rush | |
| Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
| Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
| T. 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 | Chilvers Lane near Moulamein, Murrabit Rd between Murra Lane and Cobramunga Rd, Coonamit Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| A. victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. pruinosa | Yellow Gum | |
| Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
| Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
| Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
| Eremophila divaricata | Spreading Emubush | |
| E. maculata | Spotted Fuchsia | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Nicotiana glauca | Tobacco Bush | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass |
| Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Eryngium ovinum | Blue Devil | |
| Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| Stemodia florulenta | Blue Rod | |
| Typha orientalis | Cumbungi | |