General Native Vegetation Profile:
Penarie

Level to Depressed Plains | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests |
LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods. Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Southern end of Prungle Mail Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Eremophila sturtii | Turpentine | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
M. turbinata | Satiny Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
S. intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Calotis cuneifolia | Purple Burr-daisy | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
D. paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Eragrostis australasica | Canegrass | |
Hyalosperma glutinosum | Golden Sunray | |
Plantago drummondii | Dark Sago weed | |
Pycnosorus chrysanthes | Golden Billy-buttons | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Velleia paradoxa | Spur Velleia |
LANDFORM | Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black / Pearl Bluebush Chenopod Shrubland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Pearl Bluebush and/or Black Bluebush. Aeolian, deep calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoil. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Eastern side of Pitarpunga Lake, eastern side of Macommon Lake. | |
TREES >8M | Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine |
Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia melvillei | Myall |
A. oswaldii | Miljee | |
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens | Rosewood | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata | Baldoo |
A. leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush | |
A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
A. pseudocampanulata | Mealy Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana appressa | Grey Bluebush | |
M. decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
M. georgei | Satiny Bluebush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
M. sedifolia | Pearl Bluebush | |
Malacocera tricornis | Soft-horns | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena divaricata | Pale Poverty-bush | |
S. intricata | Tangled Poverty-bush | |
S. muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
S. tricuspis | Streaked Poverty-bush | |
Tecticornia tenuis | Slender Glasswort | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
A. nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
A. nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
A. scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Dysphania pumilio | Small Crumbweed | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum | Round-leaf Pigface | |
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus | Twin-horned Copperburr | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eragrostis dielsii | Mulka | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Lepidium monoplocoides | Winged Peppercress | |
Minuria cunninghamii | Bush Minuria | |
M. leptophylla | Minnie Daisy | |
Panicum decompositum | Native Millet | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
R. floribunda | Common White Sunray | |
Sclerolaena brachyptera | Short-winged Copperburr | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Solanum esuriale | Quena | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach |
LANDFORM | Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mallee Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts. Aeolian, sandy red loams. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Paika Lake Rd south east of Penarie, Kyalite – Balranald Rd, Balranald – Moulamein Rd, Hatfield Rd approx 10km north of Balranald to Penarie. | |
TREES >8M | Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia colletioides | Spine Bush |
A. hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
A. halliana | Manna Wattle | |
A. ligulata | Sandhill Wattle | |
A. microcarpa | Manna Wattle | |
A. oswaldii | Miljee | |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Bossiaea walkeri | Cactus Pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow leaf Hopbush | |
Eremophila deserti | Ellangowan Poison-bush | |
Eucalyptus dumosa | Congoo Mallee | |
E. gracilis | Yorrell | |
E. oleosa | Red Mallee | |
E. socialis | Pointed Mallee | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Hakea leucoptera | Needlewood | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Santalum murrayanum | Bitter Quandong | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
S. a. subsp. petiolaris | Phyllodinous Desert Cassia | |
S. a. subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
Templetonia egena | Desert Broombush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Acacia sclerophylla | Hard-leaf Wattle |
Atriplex acutibractea subsp. acutibractea | Pointed Saltbush | |
A. eardleyae | Small Saltbush | |
A. lindleyi | Eastern Flat-top Saltbush | |
A. stipitata | Bitter Saltbush | |
A. vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
Beyeria opaca | Smooth Wallaby bush | |
Chenopodium curvispicatum | Cottony Saltbush | |
C. desertorum | Desert Goosefoot | |
Daviesia arenaria | Sandhill Bitter-pea | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila glabra | Tar Bush | |
Eutaxia microphylla | Mallee Bush-pea | |
Grevillea huegelii | Comb-spider Grevillea | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
M. erioclada | Rosy Bluebush | |
M. georgei | Satiny Bluebush | |
M. pentatropis | Erect Mallee Bluebush | |
M. pyramidata | Black Bluebush | |
M. radiata | Grey Bluebush | |
M. sedifolia | Pearl Bluebush | |
M. triptera | Three winged Bluebush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Olearia pimeleoides | Showy Daisy-bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis | Goathead Burr | |
S. diacantha | Grey Copperburr | |
S. obliquicuspis | Limestone Copperburr | |
Westringia rigida | Stiff Western Rosemary | |
Zygophyllum eremaeum | Climbing Twinleaf | |
GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Austrostipa elegantissima | Feather Speargrass | |
A. nitida | Balcarra Speargrass | |
Brachyscome lineariloba | Hard head Daisy | |
Calandrinia eremaea | Small Purslane | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Dissocarpus paradoxus | Cannon-ball | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Erodium crinitum | Blue Crowfoot | |
Goodenia willisiana | Sandhill Goodenia | |
Helichrysum leucopsideum | Satin Everlasting | |
Isoetopsis graminifolia | Grass Cushion | |
Lepidium leptopetalum | Shrubby Peppercress | |
Lomandra leucocephala | Woolly-head Mat-rush | |
Maireana sclerolaenoides | Woolly fruit Copperburr | |
Marsdenia australis | Doubah | |
Omphalolappula concava | Burr Stickseed | |
Podolepis jaceoides | Showy Copper wire Daisy | |
Ptilotus nobilis | Regal Foxtail | |
P. seminudus | Rabbit tails | |
P. spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
R. stuartiana | Clay Sunray | |
Senecio glossanthus | Slender Groundsel | |
Tetragonia tetragonioides | New Zealand Spinach | |
Triodia scariosa | Porcupine Grass | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell | |
Roepera apiculata | Gall Weed | |
R. aurantiaca subsp. aurantiaca | Shrubby Twinleaf | |
R. glauca | Pale Twinleaf | |
Zygophyllum iodocarpum | Violet Twinleaf |