General Native Vegetation Profile:
Savernake
Plains | Shallow Depressions | Level to Depressed Plains |
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 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 | Native Dog Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
E. microcarpa | Grey 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 | |
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa | Native Liquorice | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Cressa australis | Rosinweed | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
E. plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
J. flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
J. radula | Hoary Rush | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
M. enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
T. orientalis | Cumbungi | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
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 | Daysdale area. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. pendula | Boree | |
A. salicina | Cooba | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m | Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
R. setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
A. scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Yellow Buttons | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
C. decumbens var. decumbens | Spreading Crassula | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
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 gracilis | Australian Bluebell | |
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy |