General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lower Sandy
Higher slopes | Flats | Low to mid slopes |
LANDFORM | Higher slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quarzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Lithosols (earthy loams) & red podzolic (duplex) soils . | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Pomingalarna Reserve | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Exocarpus cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. deanei | Deane’s Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. genistifolia | Spreading / EarlyWattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Dillwynia phylicoides species complex | Small-leaf Parrot-pea | |
Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick / Leafless Indigo | |
Pultenaea procumbens | Heathy Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida ramosa | Brush Wire Grass |
Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
Calotis cuneifolia | Purple Burr-daisy | |
Danthonis spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheat-grass | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
Wahlenbergia stricta | Tall Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Flats | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box & Yellow Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – sand, silt, clay & gravel. Alluvial soils & red podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Uranquinty/Yarragundry area | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum |
E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ drainage lines/damp areas |
LANDFORM | Low to mid slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box/Grey Box/White Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – sand, silt, clay & gravel. Non-calcic brown soils, red earths & red-brown earths | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | North of Uranquinty | |
TREES >8M | Acacia leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Red-leg Grass | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many-flowered Mat-rush | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass |