General Native Vegetation Profile:
Savernake
Plains | Shallow Wetland | Deep Wetland |
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 | Shallow Wetland | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Shallow Wetland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Seasonal or intermittent wetland, meadow, marsh, lake or lagoon with fringing River Red Gum and/or Grey Box. Alluvial, heavy grey clays. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Native Dog Swamp. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Duma florulenta | Lignum |
GROUND COVERS | Alisma plantago-aquatica | Water Plantain |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus macrorhinus | Long-nosed Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Elatine gratioloides | Waterwort | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
Lythrum hyssopifolia | Hyssop Loosestrife | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum crispatum | Common Water-milfoil | |
Nymphoides crenata | Wavy Marshwort | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Persicaria hydropiper | Waterpepper | |
P. prostrata | Creeping Knotweed | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Deep Wetland | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Deep Wetland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Semi-permanent wetland, billabong, lake or old creek bed often with fringing River Red Gum. Alluvial, heavy grey clays. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | No example known. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
GROUND COVERS | Cyperus gymnocaulos | Spiny Sedge |
Eleocharis sphacelata | Tall Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis | Water Primrose | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Nymphoides crenata | Wavy Marshwort | |
Ottelia ovalifolia | Swamp Lily | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Persicaria decipiens | Slender Knotweed | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Potamogeton crispus | Curly Pondweed | |
P. ochreatus | Blunt Pondweed | |
Pseudoraphis spinescens | Spiny Mud-grass | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
T. orientalis | Cumbungi | |
Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed |