General Native Vegetation Profile:
Meadow Creek
Creeks, Rivers and Low Country | Mid Slopes | Hillslopes and Ridges |
LANDFORM | Creeks, Rivers and Low Country | |
VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
TREES >8M | Casuarina cunninghamiana | River She-Oak |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle |
Acacia melanoxylon | Black Wood | |
Callistemon sieberi | River bottlebrush | |
Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
Leptospermum obovatum | River Tea Tree | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma auriculata | Common Wallaby-grass |
Rytidosperma setacea | Bristly Wallaby Grass | |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Carex inversa | Inverted Sedge | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax Lily | |
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta | Spreading Flax Lily | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush (Lomandra species) | |
Poa sieberiana | Sieber’s Tussock Grass |
LANDFORM | Mid Slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box – Blakely’s Red Gum – Long-leaved Box – Nortons Box – Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Shallow clay or loamy clay soils derived from fine grained sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous substrates | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus albens | White Box |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
Eucalyptus nortonii | Peppermint Box | |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus sideroxylon | Red Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle |
Acacia genistifolia | Early Wattle | |
Acacia implexa | Lightwood | |
Acacia paradoxa | Hedge Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea Flower | |
Hibbertia riparia | Tangled Guinea Flower | |
Leucopogon virgatus | Common Bearded-heath | |
Lissanthe strigosa subsp. strigosa | Peach Heath | |
GROUND COVERS | Ammobium craspedioides | Everlasting |
Arthropodium minus | Vanilla Lily | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | Plains Wallaby Grass | |
Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
Carex breviculmis | Short-stem Sedge | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta | Blue Flax Lily | |
Arthropodium strictus | Large-fruit Wedge-sedge | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Poa sieberiana | Grey Tussock | |
Pratia purpurascens | Austral Bluebell | |
Pultenaea lapidosa | Glandular Bush-pea | |
Rumex brownii | Narrow-leaf Dock | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca | Swamp Grass-tree | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | Hillslopes and Ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark, Mugga Ironbark & Red Box shrub/grass open forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Occurs on grey to red to yellow podzolic loamy sand soils derived from granite and some metamorphic rocks & Occurs on shallow clayey soils derived from mainly metamorphic substrates such as phyllite or arkose | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Wyangala Dam | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus dealbata | White Peppermint | |
Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus rossii | Inland Scribbly Gum | |
Eucalyptus sideroxylon | Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
Acacia implexa | Lightwood | |
Acacia vestita | Hairy Wattle | |
Brachyloma daphnoides subsp. daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Dogwood | |
Grevillea ramosissima subsp. ramosissima | Messmate Grevillea | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma monticola | Mountain Wallaby Grass |
Rytidosperma racemosa var. racemosa | Wallaby Grass | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Glycine tabacina | Variable Glycine | |
Gonocarpus tetragynus | Matted Raspwort | |
Goodenia hederacea subsp. hederacea | Climbing Goodenia | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea Flower | |
Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
Isotoma axillaris | Blue Isotome | |
Kunzea parvifolia | Burgan | |
Laxmannia gracilis | Slender Matrush | |
Lepidosperma laterale | Prickly Sword-sedge | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Poa sieberiana | Grey Tussock | |
Wahlenbergia stricta subsp. stricta | Tall Bluebell | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Swamp Grass-tree |