General Native Vegetation Profile:
Gunbar (southern)
| Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Level to Depressed Plains |
| LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murrumbidgee River east of the Cobb Highway at Hay. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
| Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana | River Oak | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| 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 | |
| Exocarpos sparteus | Slender Cherry | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
| Asperula conferta | Common Woodruff | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
| Bulbine bulbosa | Native Leek | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
| Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
| Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
| Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
| Dichondra repens | Kidneyweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
| Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
| Goodenia glauca | Pale Goodenia | |
| Haloragis glauca f. glauca | Grey Raspwort | |
| Lomandra effusa | Scented Mat-rush | |
| L. longifolia | Spiny-headed Mat-rush | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Mentha australis | River Mint | |
| Microlaena stipoides | Meadow Rice-grass | |
| Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| P. pleiocephalus | Soft Billy buttons | |
| Ranunculus lappaceus | Common Buttercup | |
| R. pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |
| Tricoryne elatior | Yellow Rush-lily | |
| Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
| Vallisneria australis | Eel-weed | |
| Viola betonicifolia | Showy Violet | |
| Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell | |
| 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 | Murrumbidgee floodplain around Hay, scattered creeklines along the Lachlan Valley Way south-east of Hillston. | |
| TREES >8M | Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box |
| Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| A. pendula | Boree | |
| A. salicina | Cooba | |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
| 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 | |
| S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Rumex tenax | Dock | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Senecio quadridentatus | Cotton Fireweed | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| S. fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Teucrium racemosum | Grey Germander | |
| 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 | One Tree exclosure plot, Booligal Rd approx. 10 km south-east of Booligal. | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Abutilon halophilum | Plains Lantern bush |
| Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
| A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
| A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
| A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Frankenia connata | Clustered Sea-heath | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
| S. intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
| S.a muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| S. stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
| GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Cotula bipinnata | Ferny Cotula | |
| Daucus glochidiatus | Australian Carrot | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Leiocarpa leptolepis | Stalked Plover-daisy | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
| Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |