General Native Vegetation Profile:
Booroorban (western)
Level to Depressed Plains | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees | Sandplains and Low Rises |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Paradise exclusion plot, travelling stock reserve between Wanganella and Black Swamp, Tchelery Rd east of Miegunyah Rd. | |
TREES >8M | ??? | ??? |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Pycnosorus chrysanthes | Golden Billy-buttons | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass |
LANDFORM | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black / Pearl Bluebush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Pearl Bluebush and/or Black Bluebush. Alluvial or aeolian, calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Tchelery Rd west of Moulamein Rd, Tchelery Rd west of Tchelery Woolshed. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Maireana georgei | Satiny Bluebush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Maireana sedifolia | Pearl Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Dysphania pumilio | Small Crumbweed | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eragrostis dielsii | Mulka | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Low Rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Belah – Rosewood Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes. Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Sturt Highway west of The Willows, Moulamein-Balranald Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia colletioides | Spine Bush |
Acacia melvillei | Myall | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
Templetonia egena | Desert Broombush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
Atriplex eardleyae | Small Saltbush | |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Maireana radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
Maireana triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Olearia magniflora | Splendid Daisy-bush | |
Olearia muelleri | Mueller Daisy-bush | |
Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Scleroblitum atriplicinum | Purple Goosefoot | |
Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Geococcus pusillus | Earth Cress | |
Goodenia pinnatifida | Scrambled Eggs | |
Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
Leucochrysum molle | Hoary Sunray | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Rhodanthe floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
Rhodanthe polygalifolia | Brilliant Sunray | |
Rhodanthe stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Vittadinia cervicularis | Annual New Holland Daisy | |
Vittadinia condyloides | Club hair New Holland Daisy | |
Zygophyllum ammophilum | Sand Twinleaf | |
Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf |