General Native Vegetation Profile:
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Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | 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 | Werai State Forest, Stevens Weir State Forest, Benjee State Forest. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
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GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crinum flaccidum | Darling Lily | |
Arthropodium fimbriatum | Nodding Chocolate-lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Glinus lotoides | Hairy Carpet-weed | |
Lipocarpha microcephala | Button Rush | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
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 | Werai State Forest, Cobb Highway Travelling Stock Reserve north of Deniliquin, Cockran Creek near Rangemore Rd, Forest Creek on the Conargo Rd. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia homalophylla | Yarran |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eremophila debilis | Winter Apple | |
Eremophila maculata | Spotted Fuchsia | |
Maireana brevifolia | Yanga Bush | |
Nitraria billardierei | Dillon Bush | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Bulbine bulbosa | Native Leek | |
Calocephalus sonderi | Pale Beauty-heads | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Dianella revoluta s.s. | Spreading Flax-lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eryngium ovinum | Blue Devil | |
Goodenia glauca | Pale Goodenia | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Minuria integerrima | Smooth Minuria | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Stemodia florulenta | Blue Rod |
LANDFORM | Plains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Grey Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke. Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Cockran Creek near Rangemeore Rd, Moulamein Rd west of Pretty Pines, Cobb Highway Travelling Stock Reserve north of Deniliquin. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia implexa | Hickory Wattle |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus | Kurrajong | |
Callitris glaucophylla | White Cypress Pine | |
Callitris gracilis | Murray Cypress Pine | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
Myoporum platycarpum | Sugarwood | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia acinacea | Gold-dust Wattle |
Acacia brachybotrya | Grey Wattle | |
Acacia hakeoides | Western Black Wattle | |
Acacia montana | Mallee Wattle | |
Acacia oswaldii | Miljee | |
Acacia pycnantha | Golden Wattle | |
Acacia rigens | Needle Wattle | |
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa | Native Blackthorn | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Eremophila longifolia | Emubush | |
Exocarpos aphyllus | Leafless Cherry | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Myoporum montanum | Western Boobialla | |
Pittosporum phylliraeoides | Butterbush | |
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea | Broad leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia | Fine leaf Desert Cassia | |
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla | Narrow leaf Desert Cassia | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Atriplex leptocarpa | Slender-fruited Saltbush |
Dillwynia cinerascens | Grey Parrot-pea | |
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata | Wedge leaf Hopbush | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Maireana microphylla | Eastern Cottonbush | |
Pultenaea largiflorens | Twiggy Bush-pea | |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
Sclerolaena muricata | Five spined Bassia | |
GROUND COVERS | Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed |
Arthropodium minus | Small Vanilla-lily | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma setacea | Small flowered Wallaby Grass | |
Austrostipa aristiglumis | Plains Grass | |
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata | Rough Speargrass | |
Calocephalus citreus | Lemon Beauty-heads | |
Calotis hispidula | Bogan Flea | |
Carex inversa | Knob Sedge | |
Chloris truncata | Windmill Grass | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Crassula colorata | Dense Stonecrop | |
Crassula decumbens var. decumbens | Spreading Crassula | |
Dianella porracea | Smooth Flax-lily | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Anthrosachne scaber | Common Wheatgrass | |
Enteropogon acicularis | Curly Windmill Grass | |
Homopholis proluta | Rigid Panic | |
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus | Woolly-heads | |
Plantago turrifera | Small Sago weed | |
Ptilotus spathulatus | Pussy tails | |
Pycnosorus globosus | Drumsticks | |
Rhodanthe corymbiflora | Grey Sunray | |
Rumex tenax | Dock | |
Sida corrugata | Corrugated Sida | |
Swainsona murrayana | Slender Darling Pea | |
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus | Common Sunray | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell | |
Wahlenbergia gracilis s.s. | Australian Bluebell | |
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica | Early Nancy |