General Native Vegetation Profile:
Penarie
Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Sandplains and Low Rises |
LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Kyalite State Forest, Balranald Weir, Murrumbidgee River frontage. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Asperula gemella | Twin-leaf Bedstraw | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crinum flaccidum | Darling Lily | |
Cynodon dactylon | Couch Grass | |
Cyperus exaltatus | Giant Sedge | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis pusilla | Small Spike-rush | |
Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Murrumbidgee River floodplain, depressions on the Balranald – Moulamein Rd north of Kyalite Rd, Sturt Highway between Yanga Creek and Waugorah Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila debilis | Winter Apple | |
Eremophila divaricata | Spreading Emubush | |
Eremophila maculata | Spotted Fuchsia | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Roepera glauca | Pale Twinleaf |
LANDFORM | Sandplains and Low Rises | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Belah – Rosewood Woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes. Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Formerly west of Balranald and south of the river, only known example is north of Weimby. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Casuarina pauper | Belah | |
Geijera parviflora | Wilga | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia colletioides | Spine Bush |
Acacia melvillei | Myall | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum acuminatum | Quandong | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
Templetonia egena | Desert Broombush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
Atriplex eardleyae | Small Saltbush | |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
Chenopodium desertorum | Desert Goosefoot | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
Lycium australe | Australian Boxthorn | |
Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
Maireana pentatropis | Erect Mallee Bluebush | |
Maireana pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
Maireana radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
Maireana triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
Maireana turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Olearia magniflora | Splendid Daisy-bush | |
Olearia muelleri | Mueller Daisy-bush | |
Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum | Water Weed | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Scleroblitum atriplicinum | Purple Goosefoot | |
Sclerolaena diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
Sclerolaena obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
Sclerolaena tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
GROUND COVERS | Actinobole uliginosum | Flannel Cudweed |
Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
Austrostipa nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Convolvulus erubescens | Australian Bindweed | |
Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Geococcus pusillus | Earth Cress | |
Goodenia pinnatifida | Scrambled Eggs | |
Goodenia pusilliflora | Small-flowered Goodenia | |
Leucochrysum molle | Hoary Sunray | |
Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush | |
Maireana ciliata | Hairy Fissure weed | |
Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Rhodanthe floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
Rhodanthe polygalifolia | Brilliant Sunray | |
Rhodanthe stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Vittadinia condyloides | Club hair New Holland Daisy | |
Zygophyllum ammophilum | Sand Twinleaf | |
Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf |