General Native Vegetation Profile:
Hovells Creek
| Creeks, Rivers and Low Country | Flats & Mid Slope | Upper Slopes/Hills |
| LANDFORM | Creeks, Rivers and Low Country | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum Woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
| TREES >8M | Casuarina cunninghamiana | River She-Oak |
| Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle |
| Acacia melanoxylon | Black Wood | |
| Callistemon sieberi | River bottlebrush | |
| Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
| Leptospermum obovatum | River Tea Tree | |
| GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma auriculata | Common Wallaby-grass |
| Rytidosperma setacea | Bristly Wallaby Grass | |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Carex inversa | Inverted Sedge | |
| Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax Lily | |
| Dianella revoluta var. revoluta | Spreading Flax Lily | |
| Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush (Lomandra species) | |
| Poa sieberiana | Sieber’s Tussock Grass | |
| LANDFORM | Flats & Mid Slope | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland & White Box grassy woodlands | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Chromosols – fertile deep, loam or clay soils derived from a range of substrates including fine-grained sedimentary and metamorphic rocks but also volcanics and fine-grained | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | ??? | |
| TREES >8M | Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| Eucalyptus macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| Eucalyptus polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia rubida | Red-leaved Wattle |
| Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf wattle | |
| Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle | |
| Acacia genistifolia | Early wattle | |
| Acacia implexa | Hickory/Lightwood | |
| Acacia lanigera | Woolly wattle | |
| Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo thorn | |
| Acacia parramattensis | Parramatta wattle | |
| Acacia verniciflua | Varnish wattle | |
| Acacia vestita | Weeping boree | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf hop bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma auriculata | Wallaby Grass |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | Dense Wallaby Grass | |
| Rytidosperma monticola | Mountain Wallaby Grass | |
| Austrostipa bigeniculata | Giant Spear Grass | |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
| Calotis cuneata var. cuneata | Burr Daisy | |
| Calotis lappulacea | Burr Daisy | |
| Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi | Rock Fern | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Common Everlasting | |
| Cymbonotus lawsonianus | Basket Grass | |
| Arthropodium strictus | Chocolate Lily | |
| Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
| Goodenia pinnatifida | Cut-leaf Goodenia | |
| Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
| Microseris lanceolata | Yam Daisy | |
| Poa sieberiana | Tussock Grass | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzy New Holland Daisy | |
| Wahlenbergia sp. | Bluebell | |
| Wurmbea dioica | Early Nancy | |
| LANDFORM | Upper Slopes/Hills | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark & Mugga Ironbark – Inland Scribbly Gum – Red Box shrub/grass open forest | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Occurs on grey to red to yellow podzolic loamy sand soils derived from granite and some metamorphic rocks & occurs on shallow clayey soils derived from mainly metamorphic substrates such as phyllite or arkose | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Wyangala Dam | |
| TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
| Brachychiton populnea | Kurrajong | |
| Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus dives | Broad leaf peppermint (very minor component) | |
| Eucalyptus goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
| Eucalyptus macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| Eucalyptus polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| Eucalyptus rossii | Inland Scribbly Gum | |
| Eucalyptus sideroxylon | Ironbark | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia rubida | Red-leaved Wattle |
| Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf wattle | |
| Acacia dealbata | Silver wattle | |
| Acacia genistifolia | Early wattle | |
| Acacia implexa | Hickory/Lightwood | |
| Acacia lanigera | Woolly wattle | |
| Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo thorn | |
| Acacia parramattensis | Parramatta wattle | |
| Acacia verniciflua | Varnish wattle | |
| Acacia vestita | Weeping boree | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf hop bush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma monticola | Mountain Wallaby Grass |
| Rytidosperma racemosa var. racemosa | Wallaby Grass | |
| Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
| Glycine tabacina | Variable Glycine | |
| Gonocarpus tetragynus | Matted Raspwort | |
| Goodenia hederacea subsp. hederacea | Climbing Goodenia | |
| Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea Flower | |
| Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
| Isotoma axillaris | Blue Isotome | |
| Kunzea parvifolia | Burgan | |
| Laxmannia gracilis | Slender Matrush | |
| Lepidosperma laterale | Prickly Sword-sedge | |
| Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea | Wattle Mat-rush | |
| Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
| Poa sieberiana | Grey Tussock | |
| Wahlenbergia stricta subsp. stricta | Tall Bluebell | |
| Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Swamp Grass-tree | |