General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lower Gilmore & Sandy
Lower slopes & valleys | Mid to upper slopes |
LANDFORM | Lower slopes & valleys | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Maragle bathylith & riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay and gravel Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Gilmore Creek area | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
+ E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
+ creeklines/watercourses | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia ulicifolia | Prickly Moses |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
Kunzea parvifolia | Violet Kunzea | |
Pultenaea cunninghamii | Grey Bush-pea | |
P. procumbens | Heathy Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ creeklines/watercourses |
LANDFORM | Mid to upper slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Red Stringybark woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite, reddish shale, siltstone & Maragle bathylith Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Tumut State Forest & Gilmore Valley ridges | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
A. falciformis | Mountain Hickory | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
* E. dives | Broad-leaved Peppermint | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
* E. mannifera | Brittle Gum | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
* E. robertsonii | Robertson’s Peppermint | |
E. rossii | Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum | |
E. sideroxylon | Mugga/Red Ironbark | |
* E. viminalis | Manna Gum | |
Exocarpus cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
* higher, moister areas | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
A. gunnii | Ploughshare Wattle | |
A. leprosa | Cinnamon Wattle | |
A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
C. longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
Correa reflexa | Common Correa | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
Dillwynia phyllicoides | Small-leaf Parrot-pea | |
Grevillea lanigera | Woolly Grevillea | |
G. ramosissima | Fan Grevillea | |
Gynatrix pulchella | Hemp-bush | |
Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick / Leafless Indigo | |
I. australis | Austral Indigo | |
Persoonia rigida | Hairy Geebung | |
Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
Pultenaea cunninghamii | Grey Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Billardiera scandens | Common Apple-berry |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
Cheiranthera cyanea | Finger Flower | |
Clematis aristata | Old Man’s Beard | |
Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Gompholobium heugelii | Pale Wedge Pea | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
Hovea heterophylla | Common Hovea | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Pimelea linifolia | Slender Rice-flower | |
Spyridium parvifolium | Dusty Miller | |
Stackhousia monogyna | Creamy Candles | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
Tetratheca ciliata | Pink Bells/Pink Eye |