General Native Vegetation Profile:
Wagga Wagga City
Higher slopes | Mid to lower slopes | River’s edge | Low rises (catchment for Lake Albert) |
LANDFORM | Higher slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | White Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Lithosols (siliceous sands) & red podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Willan’s Hill | |
TREES >8M | Acacia doratoxylon | Currawang |
A. implexa | Hickory Wattle | |
Allocasuarina verticillata | Drooping Sheoak | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia buxifolia | Box-leaf Wattle |
A. deanei | Deane’s Wattle | |
A. decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
A. paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | |
A. pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Sweet Bursaria | |
GROUND COVERS | Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
Cheilanthes sieberi | Rock Fern | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
D. revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Glycine canescens | Silky Glycine | |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Pimelea curviflora | Rice Flower | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
Wahlenbergia stricta | Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Mid to lower slopes | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Mixed Box woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Lithosols (siliceous sands) & red podzolic (duplex) soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Kapooka area | |
TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
# Banksia marginata | Silver Banksia | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus albens | White Box | |
E. blakelyi | Blakely’s Red Gum | |
E. melliodora | Yellow Box | |
E. microcarpa | Grey Box | |
# was on low sand hills around Wagga Wagga | ||
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | Acacia deanei | Deane’s Wattle |
Acacia decora | Western Silver Wattle | |
Calytrix tetragona | Common Fringe-myrtle | |
Pultenaea foliolosa | Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS |
Dianella revoluta | Spreading Flax-lily |
Dillwynia sericea | Showy Parrot-pea | |
Einadia nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Hardenbergia violacea | Purple Coral Pea | |
Themeda triandra | Kangaroo Grass | |
Xerochrysum viscosum | Sticky Everlasting |
LANDFORM | River’s edge | |
VEGETATION TYPE | River Red Gum woodland | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Unconsolidated riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel (alluvium). Alluvial soils. | |
LOCATION EXAMPLE | Gobba Bridge to Eunony Bridge | |
TREES >8M | Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle |
A. leucoclada | Northern Silver Wattle | |
Brachychiton populneus | Kurrajong | |
Casuarina cunninghamiana | River Sheoak | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m | # Callistemon sieberi | River Bottlebrush |
# Eremophila deserti | Turkey-bush | |
# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting |
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GROUND COVERS | Geranium solanderi | Austral Cranesbill |
Lomandra spp. | Mat-rush | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Typha spp. | Cumbungi | |
Vittadinia cuneata | Fuzzweed | |
Wahlenbergia spp. | Bluebell |