Last updated on March 11th, 2024 at 05:03 am
The grey box and SA blue gum woodland occupied the footslopes bordered to the north by the Torrens River catchment and to First Creek of the Torrens to the south. It covered around 50% of the cities of Campbelltown, almost the entirety of Norwood, Payneham, and St. Peters, and the northern portion of Burnside to the south. The natural border running along the northeast is the red and SA blue gum woodland occupying the Torrens river catchment. The southern border is the beginning of the Black Forest, a woodland dominated by grey box and river red gum.
The research carried out by Darrell Darrell Kraehenbuehl in the 1996 publication: Pre-European vegetation of Adelaide : a survey from the Gawler River to Hallett Cove identifies plants which were also prevalent in the grey box and SA blue gum woodland. Below is a plant list which has been taken from Forests Woodlands of Adelaide Plains 1836, a Native Vegetation Planting Guide, (2000) which Planning SA developed from the book:
Tree canopy
- Lysiana exocarpi ssp. exocarpi (Harlequin mistletoe)
- Acacia pycnantha (Golden wattle)
- Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping sheoak)
- Callitris preissii (Southern cypress pine)
- Eucalyptus camaldulensis var. camaldulensis (Red river gum)
- Eucalyptus leucoxylon (South Australian blue gum)
- Eucalyptus microcarpa (Grey box)
- Pittosporum phylliraeoides var. macrocarpa (Native Apricot)
- Melaleuca halmaturorum (Swamp paper-bark)
Tall shrub
- Acacia dodonaeifolia (Hop-bush wattle)
- Acacia paradoxa (Kangaroo thorn)
- Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. semiplana (Yacca or Grass tree)
- Bursaria spinosa var. spinosa (Sweet bursaria, Christmas bush)
Low shrub
- Acacia acinacea (Wreath wattle)
- Dilwynia hispida (red parrot-pea)
- Hibbertia eutiacies (Prickly guinea-flower)
- Olearia ramulosa (Twiggy daisy-bush)
- Pimelea micrantha (Silky riceflower)
- Pultenaea largiflorens (Twiggy bush-pea)
- Vittadinia blackii (New holland daisy)
Grasses
- Agrostis avenacea var. perennis (Perennial blown-grass)
- Carex gunniana (Mountain sedge)
- Carex pumila (Strand sedge)
- Cyperus exaltatus (Splendid flat-sedge)
- Cyperus vaginatus (Stiff flat-sedge)
- Dianella revoluta var. revoluta (Black-anther flax-lily)
- Dichanthium sericeum (Silky blue-grass)
- Elymus scabrus var. scabrus (N/A)
- Isolepis cernia (nodding club-rush)
- Juncus flavidus (Yellow rush)
- Juncus subsecundus (Finger rush)
- Lomandra densiflora (Soft tussock mat-rush)
- Panicum decompositum var. decompositum (Native millet)
- Poa clelandii (Matted tussock-grass)
- Poa crassicaudex (Thick-stem tussock-grass)
- Poa drummondiana (Knotted poa)
- Poa labillardieri var. labillardieri (Common tussock-grass)
- Poa poiformis (Coast tussock grass)
- Stipa curticoma (Four short -crest spear-grass)
- Stipa flavescens (Coast spear-grass)
- Stipa multispiculis (Small-seed spear-grass)
- Stipa nitida (Balcarra spear-grass)
- Stipa tenufolia (Corkscrew spear-grass)
- Themeda triandra (Kangaroo grass)
Ground cover
- Acaena novae-zelandiae (Biddy-biddy)
- Acaena sp (N/A)
- Arthropodium strictum (Chocolate lily)
- Boerhavia dominii (Tar-vine)
- Caladenia tentaculata (King spider-orchid)
- Calostemma purpureum (Pink garland-lily)
- Centrolepis polygyna (Wiry centrolepis)
- Chenopodium pumilio (Clammy goosefoot)
- Chenopodium semipapposum (N/A)
- Cotula australis (Common cotula)
- Crassula decumbens var. decumbens (Spreading crassula)
- Crassula sieberiana ssp. tetramera (Australian stonecrop)
- Cynoglossum suaveolens (Sweet hounds-tongue)
- Dichondra repens (Kidney weed)
- Diuris pardina (Spotted donkey-orchid)
- Drosera glanduligera (Scarlet sundew)
- Drosera whittakeri (Scented sundew)
- Euphorbia drummondii (Caustic weed)
- Haloragis aspera (Rough raspwort)
- Hardenbergia violacea (Native violet)
- Kennedia prostrata (Scarlet runner or Running postman)
- Leptorhynchos squamatus (Scaly buttons)
- Linum marginale (native flax)
- Lythrum hyssopifolia (Lesser loosestrife)
- Maireana enchylaenoides (Wingless fissure-plant)
- Oxalis perennans (Native sorrel)
- Persicaria lapathifolia (N/A)
- Prunella vulgaris (Self-heal)
- Psoralea australasica (Native scurf-pea)
- Psoralea parva (Small scurf-pea)
- Ptilotus polystachyus var. Polystachyus (long-tails)
- Ranunculus lappaceus (Native buttercup)
- Rumex brownii (Slender dock)
- Rumex dumosus var. Dumosus (Wiry dock)
- Scaevola albida var. albida (Pale fanflower)
- Senecio glossanthus (Annual groundsel)
- Senecio picridiodes (Purple-leaf groundsel)
- Senecio quadridentatus (Cotton groundsel)
- Stackhousia monogyna (Creamy candles)
- Vittadinia cuneata var. cuneata (N/A)
- Wahlenbergia stricta ssp. Stricta (Tall bluebell)