General Native Vegetation Profile:
Houlaghans Creek
| River, Creeklines and Low country | Plains / grasslands, Low hills and mid slopes | Upper Slopes, High Hills & rocky outcrops |
| LANDFORM | River, Creeklines and Low country | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum Forest | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Brown & Grey Alluvial Soils. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murrumbidgee River Flood Plain & Houlaghans Creek | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| Casuarina cunninghamiana | River She Oak | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Banksia marginata | Silver Banksia(Inland form) |
| Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Centipeda cunninghamii | Old Man Weed |
| Einadia nutans | Climbing Salt Bush | |
| Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat Rushes | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Typha orientalis | Cumbungi | |
| Wahlenbergia spp. | Australian Bluebell | |
| LANDFORM | Plains / grasslands, Low hills and mid slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Grey, Yellow & White Box/White Cypress Pine Woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Granite & colluvial deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel Red Earth Soils Red Podsolic Soils |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Old Sydney Rd -Junee Shire & Old Junee TSR | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
| A. decora | Western Golden Wattle | |
| A. doratoxylon | Currawang | |
| A. leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle | |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakley’s Red Gum | |
| E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
| A. dealbata | Silver Wattle | |
| A. deanei | Dean’s Wattle | |
| A. decora | Western Golden Wattle | |
| A. leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle | |
| A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
| Cassinia sifton | Sifton Bush | |
| Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush Pea | |
| Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cotton Bush | |
| Pittosporum angustifolium | Butter Bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Aristida ramosa | Three-awn Spear Grass |
| Rytidosperma spp | Wallaby Grasses | |
| Austrostypa sp | Wire Grass | |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red Grass | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Microlaena stipiodes | Weeping Grass | |
| LANDFORM | Upper Slopes, High Hills & rocky outcrops | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Tumbledown Gum & White Cypress Pine Woodland (Lower Catchment) & Black Cypress Pine, Grey Box & Mugga Ironbark Woodland (Upper Catchment) |
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| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Sedimentary rocks -Shale, Quartzite & Siltstone Shallow skeletal gravelly loam & Red Podsolic Soils |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Malebo Range – Lower Catchment Combaning State Conservation Area – Upper Catchment |
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| TREES >8M | + Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
| Allocasuarina verticillata | Bulloak | |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| + Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
| C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| + E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| + E. sideroxylon | Mugga Ironbark | |
| + Exocarpus cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
| + mainly upper catchment | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Golden Wattle |
| A. deanei | Dean’s Wattle | |
| A. genistifolia | Spreading Wattle | |
| A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
| A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot Pea | |
| Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush Pea | |
| Pittosporum angustifolium | Butter Bush | |
| Santalum lanceolata | Sandalwood | |
| GROUND COVERS | Aristida ramosa | Three-awn Spear Grass |
| Rytidosperma spp | Wallaby Grasses | |
| Austrostypa spp. | Spear Grass | |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Lomandra multiflora | Many Flowered Mat-rush | |
| Poa spp. | Tussock Grasses | |
| Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue Lily | |