Vegetation Profile:
Berriquin
Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Shallow Depressions | Level to Depressed Plains |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Tholobin State Forest, Mairjimmy State Forest, Maddison Square Travelling Stock Reserve, Crossleys Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
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 | Nangunia Swamp, Moonee Swamp Rd, South Coree Rd (Nth section), Wangamong Creek. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black 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 |
Atriplex 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 | |
Eleocharis pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
Juncus radula | Hoary Rush | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Typha domingensis | Cumbungi | |
Typha 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. Grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Conargo – Jerilderie Rd, Travelling Stock Reserve 987 on the Deniliquin-Conargo Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Crassula 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 s.s. | Australian Bluebell | |
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy |