General Native Vegetation Profile:
Grassy Creek
Upper Slopes | Mid Slopes | Creeks, Rivers and Low Country |
LANDFORM | Upper Slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Dry Shrubby Box – Ironbark Forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Shallow to moderately deep with a loamy to sandy texture, on granite, sandstone, or metasedimentary rocks | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
Brachychiton populnea | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black cypress pine | |
Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus sideroxylon | Ironbark (less likely on granite hills) | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia rubida | Red-leaved Wattle |
Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf wattle | |
Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle | |
Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang | |
Acacia genistifolia | Early wattle | |
Acacia implexa | Hickory/Lightwood | |
Acacia lanigera | Woolly wattle | |
Acacia melanoxylon | Blackwood Acacia | |
Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo thorn | |
Acacia parramattensis | Parramatta wattle | |
Acacia falciformis | Mountain hickory | |
Acacia verniciflua | Varnish wattle | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf hop bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma spp | Wallaby Grasses |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Common Everlasting | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Platylobium formosum subsp. formosum | Waratah | |
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana | Grey Tussock | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Swamp Grass-tree |
LANDFORM | Mid Slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland & White Box grassy woodlands | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Chromosols – fertile deep, loam or clay soils derived from a range of substrates including fine-grained sedimentary and metamorphic rocks but also volcanics and fine-grained granite. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
TREES >8M | Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
Eucalyptus dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia rubida | Red-leaved Wattle |
Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf wattle | |
Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle | |
Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang | |
Acacia genistifolia | Early wattle | |
Acacia implexa | Hickory/Lightwood | |
Acacia lanigera | Woolly wattle | |
Acacia melanoxylon | Blackwood Acacia | |
Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo thorn | |
Acacia parramattensis | Parramatta wattle | |
Acacia falciformis | Mountain hickory | |
Acacia verniciflua | Varnish wattle | |
Acacia verniciflua | Varnish wattle | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf hop bush | |
Exocarpus cupressiformis | Cherry Ballart | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma spp | Wallaby Grasses |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Common Everlasting | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Platylobium formosum subsp. formosum | Waratah | |
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana | Grey Tussock | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Swamp Grass-tree |
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 melliodora | Yellow Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle |
Acacia melanoxylon | Blackwood Acacia | |
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 revoluta var. revoluta | Spreading Flax Lily | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush (Lomandra species) | |
Poa sieberiana | Sieber’s Tussock Grass |