FORESTS AND WOODLANDS OF THE ADELAIDE PLAINS IN 1836 A NATIVE VEGETATION PLANTING GUIDE How to use this Planting Guide: Gawler Belt Hewett This poster has been designed as a native planting guide. Looking at the map, locate your suburb's colour and match to the coloured,num- Willaston bered boxes below. This identifies the plant group appropriate to our area. On the back of this poster find your suburb's number and Ward Belt colour to identify those plants indigenous to your area. These have been listed under layer headings - ie. trees, shrubs, ground cover. Dots Gawler down the list indicate the presence of species in each group. Buchfelde Gawler Two Wells Gawler East West Middle Beach Gawler River Lewiston Gawler The blue dashed line indicate historic localities. South Evanston These were often based on distinctive vegetation OPEN SPACE AND RESERVE SYSTEM areas that existed at the time. Hillier Evanston Park OPEN FOREST Evanston Gardens River Angle Vale Kudla Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) 1 Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Open Forest Bibaringa Soil Description: Red brown clay to red brown sandy clay Evanston Landscape Description: Footslopes Port Gawler Gawler Munno Para Downs South Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Penfield Gardens Eucalyptus largiflorens (River Box) Open forest Virginia 2 Munno Para West Soil Description: Alluvial soils Landscape Description: Watercourse Peachey Belt Munno Para Macdonald Park Blakeview Uleybury WOODLANDS Buckland Park Smithfield Andrews Farm Plains Smithfield Penfield Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) Woodland Soil Description: Black earth, red brown earths, terra rossa" Davoran Park 3 Landscape Description: Footslopes Elizabeth Elizabeth Field North Craigmore Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Elizabeth West 4 Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) Woodland One Tree Hill Soil Description: Alluvial soils Waterloo Corner Elizabeth Park Landscape Description: Watercourse Elizabeth East Eucalyptus microcarpa (Grey Box) Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) Woodland Direk Elizabeth 5 Soil Description: Red brown earths Landscape Description: Footslopes Elizabeth Burton Grove Gould Creek Eucalyptus microcarpa (Grey Box) Hillbank 6 Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) Woodland Salisbury North Soil Description: Heavy red brown clay to red brown clay St Kilda Elizabeth South Elizabeth Vale Landscape Description: Footslopes River Para Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box) Woodland Paralowie Salisbury Park Salisbury Heights Soil Description: Brown solinized soil, terra rossa, black earth, red brown 7 Greenwith clay and rendzina Salisbury Plain Landscape Description: Plains Little Salisbury Salisbury Downs Outer Harbor Bolivar Brahma Lodge Callitris preissii (Southern Cypress Pine) Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Woodland Golden Grove 8 Salisbury South Soil Description: Grey sand over mottled sandy clay Parafield Gardens Salisbury East Landscape Description: Footslopes North Globe Derby Park Haven Yatala Vale Green Eucalyptus fasciculosa (Pink Gum) Fields Parafield Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) Para Wynn Vale Fairview Park 9 Hills Surrey Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Low woodland Osborne West Downs Soil Description: Brown solonised soil Landscape Description: Footslopes Para Hills Taperoo Redwood Park Banksia Park Modbury The Levels Heights Dry Creek Eucalyptus goniocalyx (Long-leaf Box) Eucalyptus fasciculosa (Pink Gum) Low woodland Largs Angoves 10 North Modbury Ridgehaven Soil Description: Loamy sand over medium clay 0 20km North Scrub Landscape Description: Footslopes Cavan Tea Tree Gully Pooraka Largs Bay Ingle Farm Para Vista St Agnes Eucalyptus leucoxylon (SA Blue Gum) Vista Peterhead Modbury Callitris preissii (Southern Cypress Pine) Valley View 11 Metropolitan Open Space System National Parks Gillman Walkley Heights Eucalyptus microcarpa (Grey Box) Low woodland Birkenhead Exeter Hope Valley Soil Description: Grey sand over yellow mottled clay Wingfield Semaphore Gepps Cross Landscape Description: Footslopes Local Reserves Recreation Parks Glanville Highbury Semaphore Port Adelaide Ottoway Highbury South Northfield Gilles Plains Ethelton Oakden Holden Hill Scrub Eucalyptus porosa (Box Mallee) Conservation Parks Residential Areas Rosewater Blair Pine Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Semaphore Park Athol Mansfield Angle Athol Clearview 12 Pennington Park Park Park Kilburn Melaleuca lanceolata ssp. lanceolata Queenstown Dernancourt (Dryland Tea Tree) Low woodland Alberton Hillcrest West Regency Park Forest Windsor Gardens Soil Description: Brown solonised soil Lakes Woodville Enfield Athelstone Landscape Description: Footslopes Forests and Woodlands of the Adelaide Plains in 1836 Shore North Woodville Ferryden Cheltenham Greenacres Paradise West Lakes Royal Gardens Park Park Hampstead Kilkenny Sefton Gardens This map shows the native vegetation of the Adelaide Plains as it probably Park Eucalyptus porosa (Box Mallee) 0 10km Albert Park Manningham Klemzig Woodville Stipa spp. (Spear Grass) Hendon Croydon Park Dudley Campbelltown was in 1836 at the time of European settlement. Broadview Newton 13 Park Nailsworth Danthonia spp. (Wallaby Grass) Low woodland Woodville Prospect Torrens Soil Description: Terra rossa The Park Collinswood Vale Park Tennyson Woodville Devon Pinery West Park Felixstow Landscape Description: Plains West Croydon Walkerville Very little of the plant cover shown here still remains in these areas today. Woodville Renown South Medindie Gardens Marden Hectorville Park Glynde Ridleyton Rostrevor This map has been recreated using historic botanical records, and through Seaton Beverley Croydon Medindie FitzroyThorngate Royston Callitris preissii (Southern Cypress Pine) Gilberton Park Allenby Brompton Payneham Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) Grange Gardens Ovingham Joslin the examination of small pockets of remaining vegetation throughout the Tranmere Woodforde 14 Findon West Payneham Banksia marginata (Silver Banksia) Low woodland Hindmarsh Bowden North Adelaide Firle St Peters Evandale South Magill Soil Description: Old dune sand (coast), heavy red brown clay soils Adelaide Plains area. Taken from the book Pre-European Vegetation of Welland Hindmarsh Landscape Description: Footslopes and swamp flats Flinders Park College Maylands Trinity St Morris Adelaide: A Survey from the Gawler River to Hallett Cove by Darrell Park Gardens Piles Stepney Kidman Park Teringie River Hackney Paddock Kraehenbuehl and published by the South Australian Nature Conservation Thebarton Beulah Kensington Park Park Auldana Henley Beach Fulham Kent Gardens Torrensville Norwood Society, the map has been adapted here for use as a planting guide. Underdale Town Kensington Rosslyn Park Melaleuca halmaturorum ssp. halmaturorum Kensington Gardens Skye Reedbeds Lockleys (Swamp Paper Bark) Low woodland Wattle Park 15 Mile End Marryatville Erindale (Port River and Patawalonga Outlet) Leabrook Soil Description: Estuarine mud and sands Henley Fulham Rose Park Heathpool Beach Brooklyn Park Adelaide Toorak Landscape Description: Watercourse Hilton Gardens South Cowandilla Keswick Stonyfell The boundaries shown on the map are approximate and provide an indica- Terminal Mile Dulwich Tusmore West End Richmond South Hazelwood tion of where different plant groups are most likely to have occured. In real- West Beach Richmond Burnside Avicennia marina (Mangrove) Low woodland Eastwood Glenside Linden Park Keswick Wayville Park Soil Description: Estuarine mud and sands Netley Marleston Parkside ity these boundaries would probably not have been as distinct, as areas Adelaide Airport Frewville 16 Ashford Landscape Description: Tidal flats Unley The such as forests, woodlands and grasslands often grade into each other. Goodwood Glenunga Plympton Kurralta Forestville St Beaumont Park Brownhill Black Forest Georges Pine Everard Fullarton Plant groups are generally correlated to soil types, topography or landscape, Park Hyde Forest North Millswood Park Glen Waterfall Plympton Black Highgate Myrtle Bank Osmond Gully and water availability. Glandore Unley Malvern Forest Park SHRUBLANDS/HEATHS Plympton Clarence Kings Park Park Mount Osmond Urrbrae Kingswood Cumberland Hawthorn Leawood Soils Novar Camden Park Netherby Gardens Glenelg North Gardens Park Clarence Westbourne Creek Plympton Gardens Park Acacia ligulata (Umbrella Bush) Park South 0 20km Hacks Plympton Springfield Acacia acinacea (Wreath Wattle) Daw Park 17 The soils given for each group have been taken from the map Soil Sturt Lower Pomaderris paniculosa ssp. paniculosa Low Shrubland Lagoon Mitcham Glenelg Edwardstown Colonel Torrens Brown Hill Creek Soil Description: Brown sandy to clayey soils often calcareous Glenelg East Melrose Light Park Associations of the Adelaide Region produced by the Department of Mines Gardens Ascot Park Clapham Crafers Landscape Description: Coastal cliffs Park Daw Mitcham Glenelg Park Park SA in 1972 and are a general description only. The top layer of soils in South Glengowrie Holme Morphettville The Olearia axillaris (Coastal Daisy Bush) some areas may have been removed or altered and this is not reflected in Somerton Park Black Forest Crafers West Pasadena Panorama Lynton Acacia longifolia var. sophorae (Coastal Wattle) Open heath the descriptions given here. Marion Mitchell Belair 18 Park Stirling Soil Description: Dune sand Clovelly Landscape Description: Coastal dunes Park St Marys North Brighton River Oaklands Glenalta Hove Warradale Park Mixed Halosarcia