General Native Vegetation Profile:
Wakool
Level to Depressed Plains | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | Level to Depressed 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 | Moulamein No 8 Channel, Rd to Wanganella, Jackson Weir Rd. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Crassula decumbens var. decumbens | Spreading Crassula | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
Plantago turrifera | Small Sago weed | |
Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Rumex tenax | Dock | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
Wahlenbergia gracilenta s.s. | Annual Bluebell | |
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy |
LANDFORM | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Conargo Rd at Tholobin (prior stream), western end of Wanganella Rd (sand ridge). | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge leaf Hopbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
Aristida jerichoensis | No. 9 Wiregrass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Clematis microphylla | Small-leaved Clematis | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enneapogon nigricans | Pappus Grass | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis lacunaria | Purple Lovegrass | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Lomandra effusa | Scented Mat-rush | |
Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Most sites are degraded, Moulamein Rd west of Pretty Pine. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach |