General Native Vegetation Profile:
Cocoparra
Sandplains and Low Rises | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields |
Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests |
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 | No intact examples known, formerly occurred between Goolgowi and Tabbita. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Apophyllum anomalum | Warrior Bush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea | Broad leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Swainsona formosa | Sturts Desert Pea | |
Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Sandplains and minor dunefields). | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Woodlands to tall woodland dominated by White Cypress Pine with emergent eucalypts and Belah on sandplains and minor dunefields. Alluvial, red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Binya State Forest, lower end of Bingar Track in Cocoparra National Park. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
Acacia homalophylla | Yarran | |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus dwyeri | Dwyers Mallee Gum | |
Eucalyptus intertexta | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia calamifolia | Wallowa |
Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Bertya cunninghamii | Gooma Bush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata | Spoon leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot |
Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
Goodenia ovata | Hop Goodenia | |
GROUND COVERS | Ajuga australis | Australian Bugle |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
Cassytha melantha | Mallee Strangle vine | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
Podolepis arachnoidea | Clustered Copper wire Daisy | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily |
LANDFORM | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mallee Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts. Aeolian, sandy red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Nericon Travelling Stock Reserve, Pulletop Nature Reserve. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Wattle |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Bertya cunninghamii | Gooma Bush | |
Bossiaea walkeri | Cactus Pea | |
Eucalyptus dumosa | Congoo Mallee | |
Eucalyptus gracilis | Yorrell | |
Eucalyptus leptophylla | Slender-leaf Mallee | |
Eucalyptus socialis | Pointed Mallee | |
Eucalyptus viridis | Green Mallee | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Acacia lineata | Streaked Wattle |
Daviesia arenaria | Sandhill Bitter-pea | |
Dodonaea boroniifolia | Fern-leaf Hopbush | |
Eutaxia microphylla s.s. | Mallee Bush-pea | |
Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass |
Dianella revoluta s.s. | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare | Native Jasmine | |
Lomandra effusa | Scented Mat-rush | |
Scaevola humilis | Sandplain Fan flower | |
Solanum coactiliferum | Felted Nightshade | |
Triodia scariosa | Porcupine Grass | |
Vittadinia pterochaeta | Rough Fuzzweed | |
Waitzia acuminata | Orange Immortelle |