General Native Vegetation Profile:
Hillston
| Level to Depressed Plains | Level to Depressed Plains | Lunettes and Sand Ridges |
| 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, mainly red-brown clays and grey-brown cracking clays. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples in sub-region, Crowsnest Rd east of McKinley Road, McKinley Rd approximately 3km south of Lachlan Valley Way. | |
| TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia pendula | Boree |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Templetonia egena | Desert Broombush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top |
| Calocephalus citreus | Lemon Beauty-heads | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Erodium crinitum | Blue Crowfoot | |
| Gnephosis arachnoidea | Erect Yellow-heads | |
| Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
| Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
| Hyalosperma semisterile | Orange Sunray | |
| Leptorhynchos panaetioides | Woolly Buttons | |
| Maireana excavata | Bottle Fissure weed | |
| Maireana lobiflora | Lobed Bluebush | |
| Minuria leptophylla | Minnie Daisy | |
| Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
| Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus | Showy Foxtail | |
| Rhodanthe floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
| Rhodanthe pygmaea | Pygmy Sunray | |
| Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
| 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 | Cobb Highway in vicinity of Toms Tank, Willandra National Park. | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
| Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea | Broad leaf Desert Cassia | |
| Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
| Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
| Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
| Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
| Atriplex spinibractea | Spiny-fruit Saltbush | |
| Atriplex spongiosa | Pop Saltbush | |
| Atriplex stipitata | Bitter Saltbush | |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Frankenia serpyllifolia | Bristly Sea heath | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Maireana erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
| Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
| Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
| Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Scleroblitum atriplicinum | Purple Goosefoot | |
| Sclerolaena intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
| Sclerolaena lanicuspis | Woolly Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Amaranthus macrocarpus | Dwarf Amaranth |
| Astrebla pectinata | Barley Mitchell Grass | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Atriplex suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
| Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
| Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Daucus glochidiatus | Australian Carrot | |
| Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
| Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
| Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
| Eragrostis brownii | Browns Lovegrass | |
| Leiocarpa tomentosa | Woolly Plover daisy | |
| Leptorhynchos panaetioides | Woolly Buttons | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
| Minuria denticulata | Woolly Minuria | |
| Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
| Plantago cunninghamii | Sago weed | |
| Ptilotus nobilis | Regal Foxtail | |
| Pycnosorus chrysanthes | Golden Billy-buttons | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Rhodanthe floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
| Sida fibulifera | Pin Sida | |
| Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
| Sporobolus caroli | Fairy Grass | |
| Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
| Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf | |
| Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf | |
| LANDFORM | Lunettes and Sand Ridges | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes). | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey. Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples remain, The Lea west of Hillston on Mossgiel Trunk Rd. | |
| TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
| Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus | Kurrajong | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
| Eucalyptus intertexta | Red Box | |
| Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil | Bimble Box | |
| Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle |
| Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
| Acacia melvillei | Myall | |
| Acacia victoriae | Prickly Wattle | |
| Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| 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 muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
| Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
| Chrysocephalum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
| Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
| Dianella revoluta s.s. | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
| Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
| Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
| Rhodanthe polygalifolia | Brilliant Sunray | |
| Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
| Sida intricata | Twiggy Sida | |
| Sida trichopoda | High Sida | |
| Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
| Thyridolepis mitchelliana | Mulga Grass | |
| Wahlenbergia gracilenta s.s. | Annual Bluebell | |