General Native Vegetation Profile:
Coleambally
| Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Shallow Depressions | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains |
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| LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Yanco Creek, Colambo Creek, Cuba South State Forest, Thurrowa Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
| Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana | River Oak | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia pendula | Boree |
| A. salicina | Cooba | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
| GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
| Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
| Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
| Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
| Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
| Haloragis glauca f. glauca | Grey Raspwort | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| Ranunculus lappaceus | Common Buttercup | |
| Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
| Vallisneria australis | Eel-weed | |
| Viola betonicifolia | Showy Violet | |
| 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 | Bundure Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| 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 | |
| M. microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
| A. 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 | |
| E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
| E. plana | Ribbed Spike-rush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
| Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
| J. flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
| J. radula | Hoary Rush | |
| Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
| Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
| M. enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
| 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 | Darlington Point Travelling Stock Reserve, Tom Bullens Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black 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 | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena birchii | Galvanised Bassia | |
| S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Lipocarpha microcephala | Button Rush | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |