General Native Vegetation Profile:
Cowabbie Creek
River, Creeklines and Low Country | Flats | Rocky Outcrops |
LANDFORM | River, Creeklines and Low Country | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Tall Grassy Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Loamy-sandy soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Cowabbie Creek, Dead Horse Creek, ephemeral creeks | |
TREES >8M | Acacia pendula | Boree |
A. salicina | Cooba | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakeley’s Red gum | |
E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deanes wattle |
A. montana | Mallee wattle | |
Cenopod desertorium | Desert Goosefoot | |
Dodonea cuneata | Cut leaf Hop bush | |
Senna artemisoides subsp. zygophylla | Punty bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Anthrosachme scabra | Common Wheatgrass |
Austrostipa scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Calostemma purpurem | Garland Lily | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Centipedia cunninghamii | Common sneezeweed | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis plana | Flat Spike Rush | |
E. pusilla | Hair Grass | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Juncus usitatus | Common Rush | |
Maireana microphylla | Small leaf Bluebush | |
Marsilea drummondii | Nardoo | |
Poa sieberiana | Snowgrass | |
Rytidosperma caespitosum | Ringed Wallaby Grass | |
R. elegantissima | Feathery Speargrass |
LANDFORM | Flats | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Sandy-loam to clay-loam soils on alluvial or stagnant alluvial plains | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Walleroobie State Forest | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping She oak |
Brachychiton populnea | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Casuarina leumanni | Bulloak | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakley’s Red gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
E. sideroxlyn | Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia baileyana | Cootamundra Wattle |
A. buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle | |
A. cardiophylla | Wyalong Wattle | |
A. deanei | Dean’s Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Golden Wattle | |
A. difformis | Drooping Wattle | |
A. hakeoides | Hakea Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. oswaldi | Miljee | |
A. Pardadoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe Myrtle | |
Daviesia mimosoides | Blunt-leaf Bitter pea | |
D.ulicifolia | Gorse Bitter-pea | |
D. cuneata | Cut-leaf Hopbush | |
D. viscosa | Sticky Hopbush | |
Myoporum montanum | Water-bush | |
Pultenaea largiflorens | Twiggy Bitter-pea | |
Senna artemissoides | Punty Bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass |
A. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Calostemma purpurem | Garland Lily | |
Cheilanthes sieberi | Mulga fern | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Dianella revoluta | Black-anther Flax-lily | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila debilis | Winter Apples | |
Lomandra filiformis | Wattle matt-rush | |
L. multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Maireana microphylla | Small-leaf Bluebush | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Poa sieberiana | Blue Tussock Grass | |
Rytidosperma caespitosum | Ringed Wallaby Grass | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles |
LANDFORM | Rocky Outcrops | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Currawang Shrubby Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Shallow gravel, sandy or loamy soils derived from sandstone, conglomerate, chert, granite and volcanics on rocky hills, hill slopes and footslopes on isolated rocky ridges | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Beckom Hill | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina vericillata | Drooping She-oak |
Eucalyptus dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
E. sideroxlyon | Ironbark | |
E. viridis | Green Mallee | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western golden Wattle |
A. doratoxylon | Currawang | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Heath Myrtle | |
Dodonea boronifolia | Fern leaf Hopbush | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Anthrosachme scabra | Common Wheatgrass |
Austrostipa scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Cheilanthes sieberi | Mulga fern | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth flax Lily | |
D. revoluta | black anther Flax Lily | |
Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Matt Rusj | |
L. multiflora | Many flowered Matt Rush | |
Poa sieberiana | Snowgrass | |
Rytidosperma caesiptosum | Common Wallaby Grass |