General Native Vegetation Profile:
Deadmans - Bungowannah - Long Flat
Flats/plain | Lower slopes | Hills |
LANDFORM | Flats/plain | |
VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Floodplain sediments – clay, silt, sand & gravel. Alluviul loams and clays. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murray River | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
+ Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush | |
+ Melicytes dentatus | Tree Violet | |
+ Leptospermum obovatum | River Tea-tree | |
+ along Murray River |
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GROUND COVERS | Carex breviculmus | Sedge |
Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa labillardieri | Tussock Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ soaks/creeks |
LANDFORM | Lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Box woodland – White Box on rises/upper slopes. Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland along drainage lines. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta- sediments. Red & yellow earths. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Bungowannah vicinity | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
+ Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Glycine spp. | Glycine | |
+ Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ drainage lines |
LANDFORM | Hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland & Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Shallow red & yellow loams. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | One Tree Hill | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-bush | |
Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Burchardia umbellata | Milkmaids | |
Calotis cuneifolia | Burr Daisy | |
Cheilanthes spp. | Rock Fern | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Pimelea curviflora var. sericea | Curved Rice-flower | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
Themeda triandra |
Kangaroo Grass |