General Native Vegetation Profile:
Upper Jerra Jerra & Upper Back
| Hills | Flats & lower slopes | Hills |
| LANDFORM | Hills | |
| VEGETATION TYPE |
White Box woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest |
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| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Peddles Hill | |
| TREES >8M | ||
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Allocasuarina verticillate |
Drooping Sheoak |
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Brachychiton populneus |
Kurrajong |
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| * mainly S & SE aspects # lower slopes | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | ||
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Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata |
Common Cassinia |
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Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata |
Wedge-leaf Hop-bush |
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| GROUND COVERS |
Arthropodium spp. |
Lily |
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Bothriochloa macra |
Red-leg Grass |
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Rytidosperma spp. |
Wallaby Grass |
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Geranium spp. |
Austral Cranesbill |
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Hibbertia obtusifolia |
Grey Guinea-flower |
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Xanthorrhoea spp. |
Grass Tree |
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| LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE |
Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland. Grey Box woodland. |
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| GEOLOGY & SOILS |
Mainly alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Red & yellow earths. |
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| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Cookardinia & further south | |
| TREES >8M | ||
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* Brachychiton populneus |
Kurrajong |
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Callitris glaucophylla |
White Cypress Pine |
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* not on clay soils + creeklines only |
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| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | ||
| GROUND COVERS |
Bothriochloa macra |
Red-leg Grass |
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Carex spp. |
Sedge |
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Rytidosperma spp. |
Wallaby Grass |
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Dianella porracea |
Smooth Flax-lily |
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D. revoluta |
Spreading Flax-lily |
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Anthrosachne scaber |
Common Wheatgrass |
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Lissanthe strigose |
Peach Heath |
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Lomandra spp. |
Mat-rush |
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+ Phragmites australis |
Common Reed |
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Themeda spp. |
Kangaroo Grass |
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+ Typha spp. |
Cumbungi |
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+ Juncus spp. |
Rush |
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+ creeks/soaks/ poorly drained sites |
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| LANDFORM | Hills | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Red Stringybark & Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum dry forest | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy yellow earths. | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Nest Hill | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. goniocalyx/E. nortonii | Long-leaf Box/Silver Bundy | |
| * E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| * E. rossii | Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum | |
| Exocarpos cupressiformis | Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart | |
| * mainly S & SE aspects | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
| A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Cassinia spp. | Cassinia | |
| Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
| Dillwynia phyllicoides species complex | Small-leaf Parrot-pea | |
| Grevillea lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
| G. polybractea | Crimson Grevillea | |
| Indigofera australis | Austral Indigo | |
| Leptospermum multicaule | Silver Tea-tree | |
| Persoonia rigida | Hairy Geebung | |
| Platylobium formosum | Handsome Flat-pea | |
| Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
| GROUND COVERS | Austrostipa spp. | Spear Grass |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath | |
| Brunonia australis | Blue Pincushion | |
| Bulbine bulbosa | Bulbine Lily | |
| Cheiranthera linearis | Finger Flower | |
| Chrysocephalum apiculatum | Yellow Buttons | |
| Rytidosperma spp. | Wallaby Grass | |
| Dillwynia spp. | Parrot Pea | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Glycine clandestine | Twining Glycine | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
| H. riparia | Erect Guinea-flower | |
| Joycea pallida | Red-anther Wallaby Grass | |
| Leucopogon virgatus | Common Beard-heath | |
| Lissanthe strigose | Peach Heath | |
| Melichrus urceolatus | Urn Heath | |
| Pimelea linifolia | Rice-flower | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| Xanthorrhoea spp. | Grass Tree | |