General Native Vegetation Profile:
Lunts Sugarloaf
| Flats and lower slopes | Hills | |
| LANDFORM | Flats and lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum/Box woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay (flats). Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist (slopes). Sandy yellow earths. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Intersection of Little Billabong & Hume Highway | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
| Eucalptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| # A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
| # Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
| Indigofera adesmiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
| + Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
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+ soaks/ poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for replanting |
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| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Borthriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| + Carex spp. | Sedge | |
| Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
| + Juncus spp. | Rush | |
| Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
| + Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| + Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
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+ creeks/soaks/drainage lines |
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| LANDFORM | Hills | |
| VEGETATION TYPE |
Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Stringybark, Long-leaf Box (lower reaches) Dry sclerophyll forest – Peppermint, Brittle Gum (upper reaches) |
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| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Shallow red & yellow sandy soils. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Eastern region of catchment | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
| * A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| +* E. camphora | Mountain Swamp Gum | |
| 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 | |
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+ creeks/soaks * upper reaches, mainly above 500 m elevation |
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| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia decora | Western Golden Wattle |
| # A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
| A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
| Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
| Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
| D. leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
| # Dillwynia phylicoides | Parrot-pea | |
| # Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
| Kunzea parvifolia | Violet Kunzea | |
| # Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
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# not noted in area but suggested for replanting |
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| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Brachyloma daphnoide | Daphne Heath | |
| Bracteantha spp. | Everlasting Daisy | |
| Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
| H. sericea | Silky Guinea-flower | |
| Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby | |
| Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| Melichrus urceolatus |
Urn Heath | |
| Microlaena stipoides |
Weeping Grass | |
| Stypandra glauca |
Nodding Blue-lily | |
| Themeda triandra |
Kangaroo Grass | |