General Native Vegetation Profile:
Hatfield (southern)
| Level to Depressed Plains | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees |
Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests |
| 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 | Oxley exclusion plot, Freshwater Rd, 16km north of Oxley (dieback affected). | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
| Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush |
| Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Frankenia connata | Clustered Sea-heath | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
| Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
| GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Calotis cuneifolia | Purple Burr-daisy | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
| Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
| Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
| Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
| Plantago drummondii | Dark Sago weed | |
| Podolepis muelleri | Small Copper wire Daisy | |
| Pycnosorus chrysanthes | Golden Billy-buttons | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Velleia paradoxa | Spur Velleia | |
| LANDFORM | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Black / Pearl Bluebush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Pearl Bluebush and/or Black Bluebush. Aeolian, deep calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoil. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Freshwater Rd north of Oxley, Clare – Oxley Rd. | |
| TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
| Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
| Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
| Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Maireana sedifolia | Pearl Bluebush | |
| Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
| Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Dysphania pumilio | Small Crumbweed | |
| Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eragrostis dielsii | Mulka | |
| Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
| Lepidium monoplocoides | Winged Peppercress | |
| Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
| Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| LANDFORM | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Mallee Woodland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts. Aeolian, sandy red loams. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Clare – Oxley Rd, Balranald – Ivanhoe Rd near Hatfield. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| Acacia victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Eucalyptus dumosa | Congoo Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus gracilis | Yorrell | |
| Eucalyptus oleosa | Red Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus porosa | Quorn Mallee | |
| Eucalyptus socialis | Pointed Mallee | |
| Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex acutibractea subsp. acutibractea | Pointed Saltbush |
| Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
| Maireana erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
| Maireana pentatropis | Erect Mallee Bluebush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Maireana radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
| Maireana triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
| Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
| Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena patenticuspis | Spear fruit Copperburr | |
| Westringia rigida | Stiff Western Rosemary | |
| Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass |
| Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
| Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
| Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
| Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Elachanthus pusillus | Elachanth | |
| Haloragis aspera | Rough Raspwort | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
| Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Rhodanthe stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
| Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
| Vittadinia cervicularis | Annual New Holland Daisy | |
| Zygophyllum ammophilum | Sand Twinleaf | |
| Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
| Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum crenatum | Lobed Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum simile | White Twinleaf | |