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 |