General Native Vegetation Profile:
Muttama Creek
River, Creeklines and Low country | Foot hills, hillcrests & upper hillslopes | Footslopes and Hillslopes and siliceous rocky ridges and rocky outcrops | Slopes and ridgers |
LANDFORM | River, Creeklines and Low country | |
VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum shrub/grass riparian tall woodland or open forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Occurs on alluvial loam soils on river banks and adjoining river flats along major watercourses | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Muttama Village – TSR R3390 | |
TREES >8M | Casuarina cunninghamiana | River She-oak |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia baileyana | Cootamundra Wattle |
A. dealbata | Silver Wattle | |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
A. leucoclada | Northern Silver wattle | |
A. mearnsii | Black Wattle | |
A. rubida | Red Stem Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa subsp. lasiophylla | *Sweet Bursaria | |
Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass |
Bolboschoenus sp. | River Club Rush | |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
C. inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-sedge | |
Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Persicaria decipiens | Slender Knot weed | |
Phragmities australia | Phragmities | |
Schoenoplectus valadius | River Club Rush | |
Typha domingensis | Bulrush |
LANDFORM | Foot hills, hillcrests & upper hillslopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mugga Ironbark – mixed box woodland on hills | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Occurs on yellow to brown gravel, clay-loam soils derived from volcanic rocks such as rhyolite and sedimentary soils such as shale or metamorphic rocks such as phyllite | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Hume highway dog on the tucker box -(Brawlin) | |
TREES >8M | Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
E. sideroxylon | Mugga Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia difformis | Drooping Wattle |
A. flexifolia | Bent leaf wattle | |
A. genistifolia | Early Wattle | |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Brachyloma daphnoides subsp. daphnoides | *Daphne Heath | |
Cassinia sifton | Drooping Cassinia | |
Daviesia genistifolia | Broom bitter – pea | |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Divisia leptophylla | slender bitter – pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
Kunzea parvifolia | Burgan | |
Lissanthe strigosa subsp. strigosa | Peach Heath | |
*Pultenaea cunninghamii | Grey Bush pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma eriantha | Hill Wallaby Grass |
A. pilosa | Hairy Wallaby Grass | |
A. racemosa | Common Wallaby Grass | |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta | Black-anther Flax Lily | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Poa sieberiana | Grey Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | Footslopes and Hillslopes and siliceous rocky ridges and rocky outcrops | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark – red gum – box low open forest + Currawang very tall shrubland + Blakely’s Red Gum – White Box – Yellow Box – Black Cypress Pine -Long-leaved Box – Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodlands | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Restricted to skeletal lithosol brown loamy sand soils derived from coarse-grained igneous or sedimentary rocks on ridges, rock flats or upper steep slopes + Occurs on skeletal, clay loam lithosol soil derived from granite, sandstone, conglomerate or other siliceous + fertile deep, loam or clay soils derived from a range of substrates including fine-grained sedimentary and metamorphic rocks but also volcanics and fine-grained granite substrates on rock flats or steep escarpments often with exposed northern or western aspects | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Muttama Cemetry & Pioneer park | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
E. goniocalyx | Long-leaved Box | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
E. sideroxylon | Mugga Ironbark | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia baileyana | Cootamundra Wattle |
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga | *Green Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. genistifolia | *Early Wattle | |
A. mearnsii | Black Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Calytrix tetragona | *Fringe Myrtle | |
Cryptandra amara | Bitter cryptandra | |
Dillwynia phylicoides | *Leafy Parrot-pea | |
D. sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Divisia leptophylla | slender bitter – pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia | Sticky Hop Bush | |
D. v. subsp. cuneata | Wedge-leaf Hop Bush | |
Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
I. ademiifolia | Tick Indigo | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Grey Grass-tree | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma sp. | Wallaby Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Calotis cuneata var. cuneata | Burr Daisy | |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Common Everlasting | |
C. semipapposum | Clustered Everlasting | |
Arthropodium sp. | Chocolate Lily | |
Glycine tabacina | Variable Glycine | |
Goodenia pinnatifida | Cut-leaf Goodenia | |
Lepidosperma laterale | Variable Sword-sedge | |
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea | Wattle Mat-rush | |
Microseris lanceolata | Yam Daisy | |
Poa sieberiana | Tussock Grass | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzy New Holland Daisy | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | Slopes and ridges | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Woodland to shrubland – Drooping Sheoke – Ricinocarpus bowmannii – grasstree tall open shrubland of the Coolac – Tumut Serpentinite Belt | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Shallow dark brown clays being euchrozem or red podzolic soils derived from in a 50 kilometre narrow band of serpentinite and associated substrates between Coolac – Gundagai and Tumut | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Top Goobaralong – TSR R45032 | |
TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
A. falciformis | *Mountain Hickory | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | *Black Cypress Pine | |
C. glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia decora | Showy Wattle |
*Banksia marginata | Silver Banksia | |
Beyeria viscosa | Sticky Wallaby Bush | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow -Leaf Hop Bush | |
Dodonaea boroniifolia | Hairy Hop bush | |
*Grevillea wilkinsonii | Tumut Grevillia | |
Santalum Lanceolatum | Northern Sandalwood | |
Senna aciphylla | Australia Senna | |
GROUND COVERS | Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red Grass | |
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta | Blue Flax Lily | |
Nicotiana suaveolens | Austral Sweet Centered Tobacco | |
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana | Snow Grass | |
Ricinocarpos bowmanii | Bowman’s Pimelea | |
Spyridium parvifolium | Dusty Miller | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Viola betonicifolia | Arrow-leaf Violet | |
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia | Grass Tree |