General Native Vegetation Profile:
Sawyers, Forest, Four Post and Little Billabong
Flats & lower slopes | Hills |
LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Alluvial soils & yellow earths. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Country surrounding creeklines e.g. Little Billabong. | |
TREES >8M | + Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
+ A. melanoxylon | Blackwood | |
Eucalyptus blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry | |
+ creeks | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Acacia genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
+ Leptospermum continentale | Prickly Tea-tree | |
+ soaks & poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for replanting |
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GROUND COVERS | + Amphibromus neesii Swamp | Swamp Wallaby Grass |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
+ Carex spp. | Sedge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Gras | |
Dillwyinia sericea | Parrot Pea | |
Juncus spp. | Rush | |
Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Poa spp. | Tussock Grass | |
+ Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Sporobolus creber | Rat’s Tail Grass | |
+ Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
+ creeks/soaks/ poorly drained sites |
LANDFORM | Hills | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Red Box & Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Mostly quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Also granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy yellow earths. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Along Hume Highway in SE corner of region | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris endlicheri | Black Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
* E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
E. dwyeri | Dwyer’s Red Gum | |
+ E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
E. nortonii | Silver Bundy | |
E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
+# E. rossii | Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart | |
* Mainly N & NW aspect + Mainly S & SE aspect # not on granite |
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SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
A. buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle | |
A. genistifolia | Spreading Wattle | |
A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata | Common Cassinia | |
C. sifton | Dolly Bush | |
Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
Dillwynia phylicoides spp. complex | Parrot Pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | Narrow-leaf Hop-Bush | |
Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
Leptospermum multicaule | Silver Tea-tree | |
Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Aristida ramosa | Purple Wiregrass |
Austrostipa spp. |
Spear Grass | |
Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
Brachycoma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Hibbertia obtusifolia |
Grey Guinea-flower | |
Isotoma axillaris | Rock Isotome Austrostipa | |
Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby Grass | |
Lissanthe strigosa | Peach Heath Brachyloma | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
Microlaena stipoides | Weeping Grass | |
Poa spp. | Wallaby Grass Hardenbergia | |
Stypandra glauca | Nodding Blue-lily | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Xanthorrhoea spp. | Grass Tree |