General Native Vegetation Profile:
Upper Sandy
| Flats & lower slopes | Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines | |
| LANDFORM | Flats & lower slopes | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Alluvium – Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist Red podzolic (duplex) & non-calcic brown soils | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Sandy Creek/Mangoplah Road area | |
| TREES >8M | * Eucalyptus albens | White Box |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| * E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| * rises | ||
| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
| A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
| A. montana | Mallee Wattle | |
| A. verniciflua | Varnish Wattle | |
| GROUND COVERS | Aristida behriana | Brush Wire Grass |
| Bothriochloa macra | Red-leg Grass | |
| Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting | |
| + Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
| Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| + Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
| + Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
| Wahlenbergia spp. | Bluebell | |
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+ drainage lines/ damp areas |
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| LANDFORM | Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines | |
| VEGETATION TYPE | Tumbledown Gum/Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Box woodland | |
| GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels, schist & granite. Red podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (siliceous sands). | |
| LOCATION EXAMPLE | Plum Pudding Hill/O’Brien’s Creek Road area | |
| TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle/Lightwood |
| Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
| Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
| * Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
| E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
| + E. bridgesiana | Apple Box | |
| * E. dealbata | Tumbledown Gum | |
| E. macrorhyncha | Red Stringybark | |
| E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
| E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
| E. polyanthemos | Red Box | |
| E. sideroxylon | Mugga/Red Ironbark | |
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* Granite areas + drainage lines |
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| SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
| A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
| A. genistifolia | Spreading/Early Wattle | |
| A. lanigera | Woolly Wattle | |
| A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
| Daviesia leptophylla | Slender Bitter-pea | |
| Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
| GROUND COVERS | Brachyloma daphnoides | Daphne Heath |
| + Carex spp. | Sedge | |
| Cheilanthes spp. | Rock Fern | |
| Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
| Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill | |
| Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
| Hibbertia obtusifolia | Grey Guinea-flower | |
| + Juncus spp. | Rush | |
| Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
| + Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
| Stypandra glauca |
Nodding Blue-lily | |
| + Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
| Wurmbea dioica | Early Nancy | |
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+ drainage lines/soaks |
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