General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lake Coolah
River, Creeklines and Low Country | Low Rises | Rocky High Point |
LANDFORM | River, Creeklines and Low country | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Medium to heavy Grey Clays overlain by clay loams and loams | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Frying Pan Creek and Lake Coolah | |
TREES >8M | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
A. pendula | Boree | |
A. salicina | Kooba | |
A. stenophylla | River Kooba | |
A. pendula | Boree | |
Allocasuarina luehmanni | Belah | |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus | Kurrajong | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
Hakea tephrosperms | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia homalyphylla | Yarran |
A. deanii | Dean’s Wattle | |
Atriplex pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
A. suberecta | Lagoon Saltbush | |
Exocarpus aphyllus | Leafless Ballart | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Spiny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
A. jerichoensis subsp. jerichoensis | Jericho Wiregrass | |
Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
A. bigeniculata | Yanganbil | |
A. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Brachycombe lineariloba | Hard-headed Daisy | |
Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
Cheilanthes seiberi | Mulga Fern | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian bindweed | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Anthrosachne scaber subsp. scaber | Common Wheat Grass | |
Enchyaelena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
J. usitatus | Common rush | |
Leptochloa digitata | Umbrella Canegrass | |
Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
Marselia drummondi | Common Nardoo | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White-top | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticjky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | Low Rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Cypress Pine/Grey Box Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Cocoparra Group sediments. Red Earths Plains and sandplains of Calcareous earths-loam to clay loam | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Landervale TSR | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxlyn | Currawang |
A. salicina | Kooba | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychition populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress | |
Casurina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanii | Dean’s Wattle |
A. hakeoides | Western Golden Wattle | |
A. homalophylla | Yarran | |
A. oswaldi | Miljee | |
Cassinia laevis | Cough Bush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hopbush | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Senna artemisoides | Desert Cassia | |
S. artemisoides subsp. filifolia | Punty Bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wiregrass |
A. semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White-top | |
Austrostipa scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Calotis cuniefolia | Purple Burr Daisy | |
C. scapigera | Rough Burr Daisy | |
Chenopodium desertorium | Mallee Goosefoot | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Matt Rush | |
Mairana microphylla | Cotton Bush | |
Pimelea curviflora | Curved Rice flower | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Wahlenbergia communis | Tufted Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Rocky High Point | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Rocky hill woodlands | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Conglomerate, sandstone and quarzites, Red and yellow podsolic soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Red Hill, Jerry’s Hill | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxlyn | Currawang |
Allocasuarina leuhmanii | Biulloak | |
A. vericillata | Drooping She Oak | |
Eucalyptus dwyerii | Dwyer’s Mallee Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle |
A. doratoxlyn | Currawang | |
A. hakeoides | Western Golden Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe Myrtle | |
Dodonaea boronifolia | Fern leaf Hopbush | |
D. cuneata | Cut leaf Hopbush | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Hoary Guinea Flower | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Platysace lanceolata | Shrubby Platysace | |
GROUND COVERS | Cheilanthes seiberi | Mulga Fern |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax Lily | |
Heliochrysum semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many flowered Matrush | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Rytodisperma setaceum | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue Lily | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |