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 | |
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# 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 | |