General Native Vegetation Profile:
Mirrool Creek
Ephemeral Creeks and Riparian | Rocky Outcrops | Riverina Plains |
LANDFORM | Ephemeral Creeks and Riparian | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow/ Grey Box Tall Grassy woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Red, brown or yellow sandy or loamy soils on flats and rises on alluvial plains. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Mirrool Creek at The Willows | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
A. pendula | Boree | |
A. salicina | Cooba | |
Allocasuarina luehmanni | Bulloak | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
C. cunninghamiana | River She-oak | |
Eucalyptus dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
E. dwyeri | Dwyers Mallee Gum | |
E. largiflorens | Black Box | |
Melaleuca erubescens | Pink Honey Myrtle | |
M. lanceolata | Moonah | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle |
A. baileyana | Wyalong Wattle | |
A. brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
A. buxifolia | Box leaf Wattle | |
A. deanei | Deane’s Wattle | |
A. difformis | Drooping wattle | |
A. hakeoides | Hakea Wattle | |
A. homalophylla | Yarran | |
A. lineata | Streaked Wattle | |
A. pendula | Boree | |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender fruited Saltbush | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Boxthorn | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Senna artemisoides subsp. artmisoides | Silver Cassia | |
S. artemisoides subsp. zygophylla | Punty Bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Austrostipa densiflora | Fox tail Speargrass | |
A. scabra | Rough Speargrass | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Chenopodium murale | Nettle-leaf Goosefoot | |
Dianella Revoluta | Blueberry Lily | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila debilis | Winter apples | |
Juncus aridicola | Tussock Rush | |
J. usitatus | Common Rush | |
Lepidosperma laterale | Variable Sword Sedge | |
Leptochloa digitata | Umbrella Cane grass | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many flowered Mat Rush | |
Marsilea drummondi | Common Nardoo | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White-top |
LANDFORM | Rocky Outcrops | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Dwyers Red Gum Currawang Shrublands | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Shallow gravel, sandy or loamy soils derived from sandstone, conglomerate, chert, granite and volcanics on rocky hills | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Brobenah Trig Point | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticilata | Drooping She-oak |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus blakelyii | Blakely’s red Gum | |
E. dwyerii | Dwyer’s Mallee Gum | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
E. viridus | Green Mallee | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Mulga |
A. calamifolia | Wallowa | |
A. deanii | Deane’s Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Golden Wattle | |
A. doratoxlyn | Currawang | |
A. hakeoides | Hakea Wattle | |
A. homalophylla | Yarran | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Boxthorm | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe Myrtle | |
Daviesia ulicifolia | Gorse Bitter-pea | |
Dodonea cuneata | Cut-leaf Hopbush | |
D. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hopbush | |
D. boronifolia | Fern-leaf Hopbush | |
D. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hopbush | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Eutaxia | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Pandorea pandorana | Wonga Vine | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Platysace lanceolata | Shrubby Platysace | |
Senna artemisoides | Punty Bush | |
GROUND COVERS | Amyema miquelli | Box mistletoe |
Austrostipa densiflora | Foxtail Speargrass | |
A. Scabra var falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Dampiera lanceolata | Grooved Dampiera | |
Daviesia ulicifolia | Gorse Bitter Pea | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax Lily | |
Einadia hastata | Saloop | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Common Eutaxia | |
Helichrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
H. semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
H. viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
Indigofera australis | Australian Indigo | |
Juncus sp. | Rush | |
Lepidosperma laterale | Variable Sword-sedge | |
Lomandra multiflora | Many flowered Mat rush | |
Pandora pandorana | Wonga Vine | |
Prostanthera ovalifolia | Purple Mintbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
R. setaceae | A Small-flowered Wallaby grss | |
R. tenuior | Wallaby Grass | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
Themeda tinadra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Thridolepis mitchelliana | Mulga Mitchell grass | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
X. viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | Riverina Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Tall Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Red-brown earths soils comprising Quaternary alluvium often as terraces on old alluvial plains or undulating peneplain landforms overlaying a range of underlying rock types including sandstone. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Binya State Forest | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina leumannii | Buloke |
A. verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Casuarina cristata | Belah | |
Eucalyptus dumosa | White Mallee | |
E. dwyerii | Dwyer’s Mallee Gum | |
E. intertexta | Gum Coolabah | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Inland Grey Box | |
E. populnea | Bimble Box | |
E. socialis | Red Mallee | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei subsp. deanei | Dean’s Wattle |
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga | Green Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Golden Wattle | |
A. doratoxlyn | Currawang | |
A. hakeoides | Hakea Wattle | |
A. homalophylla | Yarran | |
A. oswaldii | Miljee | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Dampiera lancolata | Grooved Dampiera | |
D. viscosa subs spathulata | Sticky Hopbush | |
D. boronifolia | Fern leaf Hopbush | |
D. viscosa subsp. angustissima | Giant Hopbush | |
D. viscosa subsp. cuneata | Cut leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila desertii | Turkey Bush | |
Hakea leucoptera | Silver Needlewood | |
H. tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
Jasminum lineare | DesertJasmine | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Myoporum montanum | Waterbush | |
Pittosporum angustiflolium | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Sweet Quandong | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Bunch Wiregrass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Austrostipa bigenculata | Yanganbil | |
A. densiflora | Fox tail Spearrgrass | |
A. elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
A. scable subsp. falcata | Rough Spear Grass | |
Bulbine bulbinosa | Bulbine Lily | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Common everlasting | |
C. semipapposum | Clustered Eerlasting | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Juncus usitatus | Ccommon Rush | |
Lomandra effusa | Scented Mattrush | |
L. leucocephala | Wolly Mattrush | |
L. multiflora | Many flowered Matrush | |
Rytidosperma erianthum | Wallaby Grass | |
R. setaceae | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
X. viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |