General Native Vegetation Profile:
Mullengandra
Flats & lower slopes | Hill country |
LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay along Mullengandra Creek. Mainly quartzite, slate & some granite/gneiss. Red and yellow earths/light alluvial soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Along Hume Highway, through most of catchment | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
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 | |
+ mainly creeks | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
+ poorly drained sites/soaks |
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GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
+ Carex appressa | Sedge | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
+ Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ Creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites |
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LANDFORM | Hill country | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Red Box & White Box woodland, Blakely’s Red Gum woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Mainly quartzite & slate. Also granite/gneiss. Sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Upper reaches of Sweetwater Creek | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood Drooping | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaf Box | |
* E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart | |
* Mainly S & SE aspect | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn |
A. rubida | Red-stemmed Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
C. longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-bush | |
Dillwynia phyllicoides spp. complex | Small-leaf Parrot-pea | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
+ soaks |
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GROUND COVERS | Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass |
Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
B. viscosa | Sticky Everlasting | |
Brunonia australis | Blue Pincushion | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Chrysocephalum spp. | Everlasting | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella spp. | Flax-lily | |
Arthropodium strictus | Chocolate Lily | |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Geranium spp. |
Cranesbill | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby Grass | |
Leucopogon virgatus | Common Beard-heath | |
Lomandra spp | Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Pelargonium australe | Native Storksbill | |
Pimelea spp. | Rice-flower | |
Poa sieberiana | Tussock Grass | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
Xanthorrhoea spp. | Grass Tree |