General Native Vegetation Profile:
Conoble (western)
Shallow Depressions | Level to Depressed Plains | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees |
LANDFORM | Shallow Depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Lignum-Goosefoot-Canegrass | |
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. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Willandra Creek at the Cobb Highway crossing, south of Ivanhoe | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum | Plains Lantern-bush |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Black Rolypoly | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
E. pallens | Pale Spike-rush | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Juncus flavidus | Yellow Rush | |
J. radula | Hoary Rush | |
Lavatera plebeia | Australian Hollyhock | |
Limosella australis | Australian Mudwort | |
Lythrum hyssopifolia | Hyssop Loosestrife | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Rumex crystallinus | Shiny Dock | |
Senecio cunninghamii | Bushy Groundsel |
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 | Trida – Willandra National Park Rd, Trida exclusion plot. | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Eremophila longifolia | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
E. sturtii | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea | Mealy Saltbush | |
S. a. subsp. petiolaris | Spiny-fruit Saltbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
A. leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. spinibractea | Spiny-fruit Saltbush | |
A. spongiosa | Pop Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Frankenia serpyllifolia | Bristly Sea heath | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
M. erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Scleroblitum atriplicinum | Purple Goosefoot | |
Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
S. lanicuspis | Woolly Copperburr | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
Astrebla pectinata | Barley Mitchell Grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Daucus glochidiatus | Australian Carrot | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
D. paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
E. brownii | Browns Lovegrass | |
Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
Leptorhynchos panaetioides | Woolly Buttons | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
M. denticulata | Woolly Minuria | |
M. integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Plantago cunninghamii | Sago weed | |
Ptilotus nobilis | Regal Foxtail | |
Pycnosorus chrysanthes | Golden Billy-buttons | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
R. floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
S. trichopoda | High Sida | |
Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf | |
Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf |
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. Aeolian, deep calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoil. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Trida exclusion plot, Cobb Highway approx. 15 km south of Ivanhoe. | |
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 | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
A. leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
M. sedifolia | Pearl Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
S. intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. 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 | |
A. scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Dysphania pumilio | Small Crumbweed | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
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 | |
Lepidium monoplocoides | Winged Peppercress | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena |