General Native Vegetation Profile:
Carrathool (western)
Level to Depressed Plains | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | Level to Depressed Plains |
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 | Gum Creek. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata | Spring pod Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium | Peppercress | |
Maireana excavata | Bottle Fissure weed | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
Thysanotus baueri | Mallee Fringe lily | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
LANDFORM | Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples remain, disturbed example of a prior stream on Wrights Lane 5 km north of Carrathool. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia pendula | Boree | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi | Mulga Fern | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy |
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 | Mid Western Highway 25 – 45 km north of Hay. | |
TREES >8M | ??? | ??? |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum | Plains Lantern bush |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Calotis scabiosifolia | Rough Burr-daisy | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon ramosus | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Erodium crinitum | Blue Crowfoot | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
Swainsona procumbens | Broughton Pea |