General Native Vegetation Profile:
Savernake
| Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Plains | Lunettes and Sand Ridges |
| 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 | Murray River frontage, Cottadidda State Forest, Mulwala State Forest, Boomanoomana State Forest. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
| 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. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Cassinia sifton | Dolly Bush |
| Dillwynia cinerascens | Grey Parrot-pea | |
| Eutaxia microphylla s.s. | Mallee Bush-pea | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Alternanthera denticulata | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| R. duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
| 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 | Smooth Flax-lily | |
| Dichondra repens | Kidneyweed | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
| Goodenia heteromera | Spreading Goodenia | |
| Isolepis victoriensis | Victorian Club sedge | |
| Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Myosurus minimus var. australis | Mouse tail | |
| Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| 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 | Plains | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Woodland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke. Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Savernake area, Fergusons Tank Travelling Stock Reserve, Wangamong Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
| A. brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
| A. hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata | Spoon leaf Hopbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
| S. a. subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge leaf Hopbush |
| Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Alternanthera denticulata | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Leptorhynchos elongatus | Lanky Buttons | |
| L. panaetioides | Woolly Buttons | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| LANDFORM | 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 | Wahgunyah State Forest. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Banksia marginata | Honeysuckle | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
| A. brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
| Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
| S. a. subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Acacia lineata | Streaked Wattle |
| Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge leaf Hopbush | |
| Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath | |
| Pimelea linifolia | Slender Rice-flower | |
| P. stricta | Gaunt Rice flower | |
| GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
| Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass | |
| A. jerichoensis | No. 9 Wiregrass | |
| Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa densiflora | Foxtail Speargrass | |
| A. scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia | Rock Fern | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Yellow Buttons | |
| Cynodon dactylon | Couch Grass | |
| Arthropodium fimbriatum | Nodding Chocolate-lily | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
| Enneapogon avenaceus | Common Bottlewashers | |
| E. nigricans | Pappus Grass | |
| E. acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| E. ramosus | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Eragrostis lacunaria | Purple Lovegrass | |
| Geranium retrorsum | Common Cranesbill | |
| G. solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
| Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
| Goodenia fascicularis | Silky Goodenia | |
| G. pinnatifida | Scrambled Eggs | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush | |
| Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Microtis unifolia | Common Onion Orchid | |
| Senecio quadridentatus | Cotton Fireweed | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Swainsona phacoides | Lilac Darling Pea | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
| V. gracilis | Woolly New Holland Daisy | |
| Wahlenbergia communis | Tufted Bluebell | |
| Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy | |