Native Vegetation Group 13 - Plains Woodlands or Forests
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Plains Woodlands or Forests Native Vegetation Map
High resolution map of Simplified Native Vegetation Group 13 (PDF - 1.7 Mb)> - includes major roads and towns.Ecological Vegetation Class Descriptions
| 13.1 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Freely-draining |  |
| 13.2 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Poorly-draining |  |
| 13.3 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Lunettes or beach ridges or shallow sands |  |
| 13.4 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Semi-arid (non-eucalypt) |  |
13.1 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Freely-draining
EVC 55 Plains Grassy Woodland
An open, eucalypt woodland occurring on a number of geologies and soil types. Occupies poorly drained, fertile soils on flat or gently undulating plains at low elevations. The understorey consists of a few sparse shrubs over a species-rich grassy and herbaceous ground layer.
EVC 151 Plains Grassy Forest
Open forest often above a heathy shrub layer and a diverse grassy, sedgy and herbaceous ground layer. Occurs on lowland plains and old river terraces made up of gravelly sandy clays.
EVC 203 Stony Rises Woodland
Eucalypt woodland on stony rises (highly irregular terrain on recent basalt flows). Soils are fertile and well-drained but shallow or skeletal with limited soil development outside of rock-cracks. Dry summers promote annuals and deep-rooted perennials.
EVC 642 Basalt Shrubby Woodland
Eucalypt-dominated woodland with an understorey of shrubs and grasses, presumed originally quite species-rich. Occurs on well-drained to seasonally damp fertile soils in higher rainfall areas of volcanic plain.
EVC 649 Stony Knoll Shrubland
Stony Knoll Shrubland is a shrubland or low non-eucalypt woodland with a grassy understorey. It occurs on low stony rises on basalt flows. The soils are fertile and well drained but shallow with outcropping rock, causing severe summer dryness.
EVC 705 Basalt Creekline Shrubby Woodland
Shrub-dominated low eucalypt woodland, with a range of grasses, sedges and herbs in the understorey. Occurs on heavy soils along low-gradient boggy drainage lines on relatively high rainfall volcanic plains.
EVC 895 Escarpment Shrubland
Occurs on rocky escarpments in steep valleys or gorges, associated with limestone or basalt. Sites have moderate to high fertility, are well-drained but subject to regular summer drought due to shallow soils. Shrubland or woodland, sometimes with stunted emergent trees; lichen-covered rock outcrops are common.
13.2 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Poorly-draining
EVC 283 Plains Sedgy Woodland
Occurs in shallow depressions associated with broad plains or floodplains. Soils are poorly drained, cracking clays which can seasonally form shallow freshwater marshes. The vegetation is an open woodland, with shrubs and understorey trees generally absent, and sedges predominating in the ground layer. Herbs typical of inundated environments are present, but also grass, herb and geophyte species common to surrounding woodlands.
EVC 651 Plains Swampy Woodland
Eucalypt woodland with ground layer dominated by tussock grasses, sedges and herbs. Shrubs are often scattered throughout. Occurs on poorly drained, seasonally waterlogged heavy soils.
EVC 657 Freshwater Lignum Shrubland
Lignum-dominated shrubland with a predominantly grassy-herbaceous ground layer. Occurs on fertile inundation-prone heavy soils mostly on the fringe of other wetland types.
EVC 803 Plains Woodland
An open, eucalypt woodland occurring on a number of geologies and soil types. Occupies poorly drained, fertile soils on flat or gently undulating plains at low elevations. The understorey consists of a few sparse shrubs over a species-rich grassy and herbaceous ground layer.
13.3 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Lunettes or beach ridges or shallow sands
EVC 264 Sand Ridge Woodland
Open pine-box woodland with a small or medium shrub layer of variable density and including a range of annual herbs, grasses and geophytes, in the dense ground layer. Occupies distinctive sandy rises (or sand mounts) adjacent to major rivers and wetlands. Very sandy, deep, free-draining, moderately fertile soil, developed on sand blown up by wind action from a prior stream bed.
EVC 652 Lunette Woodland
An open, eucalypt woodland with a grassy and herb-rich understorey. Occurs on generally fertile, relatively well-drained, clay-loam soils on source-bordering lunettes.
EVC 882 Shallow Sands Woodland
Woodland or open-forest, with a sparse shrub layer of heathy, ericoid shrubs and a species-rich ground cover dominated by grasses and annual herbs. Typically it occurs between the heavier soils of the plains and the deep-sand aeolian dunefields which overlay these plains, but also occurs on broader areas of plains covered by shallow fluvial, outwash or aeolian sands overlying drainage-impeding clays.
13.4 Plains Woodlands or Forests - Semi-arid (non-eucalypt)
EVC 97 Semi-arid Woodland
Non-eucalypt woodland or open forest, of low rainfall areas. Occurs in a range of somewhat elevated positions not subject to flooding or inundation. The surface soils are typically light textured loamy sands or sandy loams.
EVC 98 Semi-arid Chenopod Woodland
Sparse, low non-eucalypt woodland of the arid zone with a tall open chenopod shrub-dominated understorey to a treeless, tall chenopod shrubland. This EVC may occur as either a woodland (typically with a very open structure but tree cover >10%) or a shrubland (tree cover <10%) with trees as an occasional emergent.
EVC 828 Semi-arid Parilla Woodland
A shrubby, non-eucalypt woodland or open forest of low rainfall areas associated with topographic highs created by weathered Parilla sandstone ridges and dominated by Belah Casuarina pauper. This EVC represents a distinctive floristic segregate of Semi-arid Woodland - comprising relatively undisturbed remnants of this broader vegetation descriptor with little or no groundwater influence.
Bioregional Conservation Status and EVC benchmarks
An EVC may have a different conservation status in each bioregion in which it is found. To look up an EVC's Bioregional Conservation Status (BCS), download the spreadsheet on the Simplified Native Vegetation Groups page.
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