Marshall Plains and Waurn Ponds Flats indigenous plants

Zone 6 consists of moderately fertile alluvial loam soils with some sands gravels and clays. It is mostly flat with poor to moderate drainage. The average rainfall is 55 - 60 centimetres.

This area was characterised by a grassy woodland community dominated by either River Red Gum or Yellow Gum. In wetter areas River Red Gum was dominant while the Drooping Sheoke preferred drier sites.

Common understorey species included Wattle species Sweet Bursaria Shrub Violet and scattered populations of Silver Banksia and Giant Hop-bush.

Kangaroo Grass would have been common through much of the drier areas. Tussock Grass was present in low lying wetter areas and along watercourses. Species only found in the Waurn Ponds area include Hop Wattle Prickley Moses and Prickly Tea-tree.

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	Y	-
Blackwood	Acacia melanoxylon	5-30	4-15	Y	Y
Golden Wattle	Acacia pycnantha	3-10	2-5	Y	-
Drooping Sheoke	Allocasuarina verticillata	4-11	3-6	Y	-
River Red Gum	Eucalyptus camaldulensis	12-35	15-35	-	Y
Yellow Gum	Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp connata	10-20	6-20	Y	-
Swamp Gum	Eucalyptus ovata	8-20	8-20	-	Y
Manna Gum	Eucalyptus viminalis	10-20	8-15	-	YO
Cherry Ballart	Exocarpos cupressiformis	3-8	3-5	Y	-
Moonah	Melaluca lanceolata	1-8	3-6	X	X
Shrub species
Silver Wattle	Acacia dealbata	6-15	5-10	-	Y
Hedge Wattle	Acacia paradoxa	2-4	2-5	Y	-
Hop Wattle	Acacia stricta	2-5	2-4	-	YC
Prickly Moses	Acacia verticillata	2-6	3-5	-	YF
Silver Banksia	Banksia marginata	1-10	1-5	Y	-
Sweet Bursaria	Bursaria spinosa var macrophylla	2-6	2-3	Y	Y
Dogwood	Cassinia aculeata	2-4	1-2	Y	-
Common Correa	Correa reflexa	0.3-2	1-2	-	Y
Grey Parrot-pea	Dillwynia cinerascens	0.6-1	0.5-1.5	Y	-
Giant Hop-bush	Dodonaea viscosa	1-3	1-3	Y	-
Hop Goodenia	Goodenia ovata	1-2.5	1-3	-	Y
Hemp-Bush	Gynatrix pulchella	2-4	1.5-3	-	Y
Shrub Violet	Hymenanthera dentata	2-4	1-2.5	Y	Y
Prickly Tea-tree	Leptospermum continentale	1-4	1-2	-	YF
Woolly Tea-tree	Leptospermum lanigerum	2-6	1-3	-	Y
River Tea-tree	Leptospermum obovatum	2-4	1.5-2	-	Y
Common Boobialla	Myoporum insulare	1-6	3	Y	-
Sticky Boobialla	Myoporum viscosum	0.5-2	1.5-2	Y	-
Snowy Daisy-bush	Olearia lirata	2-5	2-3	Y	-
Twiggy Daisy-bush	Olearia ramulosa	0.5-2.5	1	Y	-
Shrub Everlasting	Ozothamnus ferrugineus	2-6	1-3	-	Y
Kangaroo Island Pomaderris	Pomaderris halmaturina ssp. continentis	1-3	1-2	YU	-
Kangaroo Apple	Solanum laciniatum	1-3	1-3	Y	-
Groundcover and tussock species
Common everlasting	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	0.3	1-2	Y	-
Black Anther Flax-lily	Dianella revoluta	0.3	1.5-2.0	Y	-
Tussock Grass	Poa labillardieri	0.8	0.8	-	Y
Kangaroo Grass	Themeda triandra	0.3	0.3	Y	-
C - Waurn Ponds Creek
F - Waurn Ponds Flats
O - on sandy alluvial deposits only
U - uncommon
X - species once occurred in this area
Y - species is present in areas of remnant vegetation