General Native Vegetation Profile:
Tuppal (north-western)
| Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | Level to Depressed Plains |
| 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 | Millewa State Forest, Tuppal State Forest, Gulpha State Forest, Moira State Forest. | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
| Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
| Acacia pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Cassinia sifton | Dolly Bush |
| Dillwynia cinerascens | Grey Parrot-pea | |
| Eutaxia microphylla s.s. | Mallee Bush-pea | |
| GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
| Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
| Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
| Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
| Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
| Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
| Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
| Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Crinum flaccidum | Darling Lily | |
| Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
| Dichondra repens | Kidneyweed | |
| Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
| Geranium solanderi | Australian Cranesbill | |
| Goodenia heteromera | Spreading Goodenia | |
| Isolepis victoriensis | Victorian Club sedge | |
| Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Myosurus minimus var. australis | Mouse tail | |
| Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
| Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
| Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
| Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
| Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
| Scleranthus minusculus | Cushion Knawel | |
| 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 | Horseshoe Lagoon near Lower River Rd, Arrawatta Travelling Stock Reserve, Tuppal Travelling Stock Reserve. | |
| TREES >8M | Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak |
| Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
| Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
| Eucalyptus melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| Hakea tephrosperma | Hooked Needlewood | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
| Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
| Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
| Acacia pendula | Boree | |
| Acacia pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
| Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
| Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Cassinia sifton | Dolly Bush |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
| Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
| Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
| Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
| Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Lipocarpha microcephala | Button Rush | |
| Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
| Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| LANDFORM | Level to Depressed Plains | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Boree Woodland. | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey. Alluvial, grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | No intact examples remain, formerly south of Deniliquin, nearest examples are in the vicinity of Walliston Rd south of Wilson Lane. | |
| SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia oswaldii | Miljee |
| Acacia pendula | Boree | |
| Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
| Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
| Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
| LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
| Atriplex vesicaria | Bladder Saltbush | |
| Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
| Maireana aphylla | Cottonbush | |
| Maireana decalvans | Black Cottonbush | |
| Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
| Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
| Sclerolaena stelligera | Star Copperburr | |
| GROUND COVERS | Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush |
| Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
| Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
| Austrostipa nodosa | Knotty Speargrass | |
| Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
| Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. | Yellow Buttons | |
| Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
| Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
| Crassula decumbens var. decumbens | Spreading Crassula | |
| Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
| Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
| Maireana pentagona | Slender Fissure-weed | |
| Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
| Plantago turrifera | Small Sago weed | |
| Ptilotus erubescens | Hairy tails | |
| Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
| Rumex tenax | Dock | |
| Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
| Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
| Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
| Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
| Wahlenbergia gracilis s.s. | Australian Bluebell | |
| Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy | |