Anakie East, Lovely Banks and the Corio Basalt Plains indigenous plants

Zone 17 consists of fertile clay to clay loam soils with basalt rock usually present. It includes hills plains and stony rises that are mostly poorly drained. The average rainfall is 45 - 55 centimetres.

This area was once predominantly an open woodland community that also included treeless grasslands and occasional shrubs. Dominant tree species including the Buloke and Drooping Sheoke grew alongside other species such as Grey Box and Red Box on better drained slopes and crests.

On the wetter areas Blackwood River Red Gum and Yellow Box trees were found. Tree and shrub species such as the Black Wattle Sweet Bursaria and Silver Banksia formed most of the middle storey.

Smaller species included Shrub Violet Kangaroo Apple and Common Everlasting.

Sadly many species of shrubs that occurred in this area are no longer found. Some of these species are the Silver Banksia and Varnish Wattle.

Tree species
Common name	Botanical name	Size (height by width in metres)		1	2
Lightwood	Acacia implexa	5-15	4-7	Y	-
Black Wattle	Acacia mearnsii	8-25	6-10	X	Y
Blackwood	Acacia melanoxylon	5-30	4-15	-	Y
Golden Wattle	Acacia pycnantha	3-10	2-5	Y	-
Buloke	Allocasuarina luehmannii	5-15	5-10	Y	-
Drooping Sheoke	Allocasuarina verticillata	4-11	3-6	Y	-
River Red Gum	Eucalyptus camaldulensis	15-35	15-35	-	Y
Yellow Gum	Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp connata	10-20	6-20	-	YU
Yellow Box	Eucalyptus melliodora	10-30	8-25	-	X
Grey Box	Eucalyptus microcarpa	10-25	10-15	YU	-
Red Box	Eucalyptus polyanthemos	7-25	5-15	YU	-
Shrub species
Hedge Wattle	Acacia paradoxa	2-4	2-5	Y	X
Varnish Wattle	Acacia verniciflua	3-5	3-5	X	X
Silver Banksia	Banksia marginata	1-10	1-5	X	X
Sweet Bursaria	Bursaria spinosa var macrophylla	2-6	2-3	Y	X
Turkey Bush	Eremophila deserti	1-4	2	X	X
Shrub Violet	Hymenanthera dentata	2-4	1-2.5	YS	X
Leafless Bluebush	Maireana aphylla	1	1	YUA	-
Tangled Lignum	Muehlenbeckia florulenta	2	2	X	-
Kangaroo Apple	Solanum laciniatum	1-3	1-3	X	X
Groundcover and tussock species
Red-leg Grass	Bothriochloa macra	0.2	0.8	Y	-
Wallaby Grass	Danthonia species	0.2	0.4-1	Y	Y
Common Everlasting	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	0.3	1-2	Y	-
Tussock Grass	Poa labillardieri	0.8	0.8	-	Y
Spear Grass	Stipa species	0.3	1-2	Y	Y
Kangaroo Grass	Themeda triandra	0.3	0.3	Y	-
A - atypical
S - stony rises
U - uncommon
X - species once occurred in this area
Y - species is present in areas of remnant vegetation