General Native Vegetation Profile:
Gunbar (eastern)
Level to Depressed Plains | Sandplains and Low Rises | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Boree Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey. Alluvial, grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | McKinley Rd north of Crowsnest Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble 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 | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata | Spring pod Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Senna aciphylla | Sprawling Cassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium | Peppercress | |
Maireana excavata | Bottle Fissure weed | |
Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
Thysanotus baueri | Mallee Fringe lily | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Low Rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Belah – Rosewood Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes. Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Green Hills Track west of Goolgowi. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Apophyllum anomalum | Warrior Bush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea | Broad leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Maireana humillima | Dwarf Bluebush | |
Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Swainsona formosa | Sturts Desert Pea |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Minor Dunefields | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Woodlands to tall woodland dominated by White Cypress Pine with emergent eucalypts and Belah on sandplains and minor dunefields. Alluvial, red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | McKinlay Rd near McKinlay. | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus intertexta | Red Box | |
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia calamifolia | Wallowa |
Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex eardleyae | Small Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena patenticuspis | Spear fruit Copperburr | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Dianella revoluta s.s. | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Rhodanthe polygalifolia | Brilliant Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida intricata | Twiggy Sida | |
Thyridolepis mitchelliana | Mulga Grass |