General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lower Kyeamba & Main
| River & flood plain | Lower slopes | Mid & upper slopes |
| LANDFORM | River & flood plain | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel Alluvial soils | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murrumbidgee River | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| A. leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle | |
| A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
| Casuarina cunninghamiana | River Sheoak | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush |
| # Eremophila deserti | Turkey-bush | |
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# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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| GROUND COVERS | Phragmites australis | Common Reed |
| LANDFORM | Lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schists. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Sturt Highway/Alfredtown | |
| TREES >8M | Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum |
| E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle |
| # A. genistifolia | Spreading / Early Wattle | |
| # A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
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# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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| GROUND COVERS | + Juncus spp. | Rush |
| Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
| + Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
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+ drainage lines |
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| LANDFORM | Mid & upper slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schists. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Ladysmith/Borambola area | |
| TREES >8M | * Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
| + A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
| * Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping | |
| Brachychiton populneus | Sheoak | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | Kurrajong | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Cypress Pine | |
| E. blakelyi | White Box Blakely’s | |
| E. melliodora | Red Gum Yellow | |
| + E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| E. sideroxylon | Mugga Ironbark | |
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* higher slopes only + sighted only in Lower Kyeamba |
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| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| A pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
| Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
| Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
| GROUND COVERS | Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily |
| D. revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| Wahlenbergia spp. | Bluebell | |