General Native Vegetation Profile:
Rosewood Plateau
Creeklines and depressions | Rolling hills |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and depressions | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mountain Swamp Gum forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Light alluvial soils & sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Mannus Creek | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. camphora | Mountain Swamp Gum | |
E. pauciflora | White Sallee/Snow Gum | |
E. stellulata | Black Sallee | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Leptospermum grandifolium | Mountain Tea-tree |
+ L. continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
Pomaderris eriocephala | Pomaderris | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Carex spp. | Sedge |
Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa labillardieri | Tussock Grass | |
Typha spp. | Cumbungi |
LANDFORM | Rolling hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Moist open forest – Red Stringybark & Brittle Gum; Apple Box & Robertson’s Peppermint | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Light alluvial soils & sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Rosewood vicinity | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. bicostata | Eurabbie | |
E. dives | Broad-leaved Peppermint | |
E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. mannifera | Brittle Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. nortonii | Silver Bundy | |
E. pauciflora | White Sallee/Snow Gum | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
E. robertsonii | Robertson’s Peppermint | |
E. rubida | Candlebark | |
E. stellulata | Black Sallee | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn |
A. siculiformis | Dagger Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla | Hairy Bursaria | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
C. longifolia | Shiny Cassinia | |
Correa reflexa var. reflexa | Common Correa | |
Daviesia latifolia | Hop Bitter-pea | |
D. leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
Grevillea rosmarinifolia | Rosemary Grevilllea | |
Kunzea ericoides | Burgan | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
Mirbelia oxylobioides | Mountain Mirbelia | |
Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
+ soaks/poorly drained sites |
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GROUND COVERS | Billardiera scandens | Common Apple-berry |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Glycine clandestina | Twining Glycine | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby Grass | |
Lomandra filiformis | Wattle Mat-rush | |
L. longifolia | Spiny-headed Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
Rubus parvifolius | Native Raspberry | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass |