General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lower Adelong
| LANDFORM | Higher rocky slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Box/Stringybark woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Conglomerate, sandstone, quarzite, reddish shale & siltstone. Lithosols (earthy loams) & red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Tumblong State Forest & Minjary Mountain | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
| A. implexa | Hickory Wattle /Lightwood | |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
| E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| E. rossii | Scribbly Gum / Snap Gum | |
| E. sideroxylon | Red / Mugga Ironbark | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| Cassinia longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
| Dillwynia phylicoides | Parrot-pea | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-bush | |
| Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick / Leafless Indigo | |
| I. australis | Austral Indigo | |
| Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
| Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
| Pultenaea cunninghamii | Grey Bush-pea | |
| Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa densiflora | Spear Grass |
| Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
| Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
| Burchardia umbellate | Milkmaids | |
| Cheilanthes sieberi | Rock Fern | |
| Cheiranthera linearis | Finger Flower | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Arthropodium strictus | Chocolate Lily | |
| Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheat-grass | |
| Glycine clandestine | Twining Glycine | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Lissanthe strigose | Peach Heath | |
| Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
| Spyridium parvifolium | Dusty Miller | |
| Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| Xanthorrhoea spp. | Grass-tree | |
| LANDFORM | Creek & flats | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium. Alluvial soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Adelong Creek | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
| Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush |
| # Melicytes dentatus | Tree Violet | |
| # Leptospermum brevipes | Slender Tea-tree | |
| # L. continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
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# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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| GROUND COVERS | Carex spp. | Sedge |
| Juncus spp. | Rush | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
| LANDFORM | Low – mid slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Maragle Bathylith. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Adelong/Grahamstown/Adelong Falls | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
| A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
| + Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| + Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| + E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| + upper reaches | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | * Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn |
| Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-bush | |
| Leptospermum brevipes | Slender Tea-tree | |
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* northern end of catchment |
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| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
| Burchardia umbellata | Milkmaids | |
| Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
| Hibbertia spp. | Guinea-flower | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| Ricinocarpus bowmanii | Wedding Bush | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |