General Native Vegetation Profile:
Coleambally (eastern)
Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Plains | Lunettes and Sand Ridges |
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 | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
Sclerolaena 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 | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander |
LANDFORM | Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke. Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Allan Carroll Flora and Fauna Reserve, Urana. | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge leaf Hopbush |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida |
LANDFORM | 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. Aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Adjacent to Yanco Creek. | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deanes Wattle |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
Santalum lanceolatum | Sandalwood | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
Aristida jerichoensis | No. 9 Wiregrass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Dysphania melanocarpa | Black Crumbweed | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enneapogon nigricans | Pappus Grass | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Eragrostis lacunaria | Purple Lovegrass | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Oxalis corniculata s.s. | Yellow Wood sorrel | |
Paspalidium constrictum | Box Grass | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida |