Limestone Plains and Hills indigenous plants

Zone 7 Consists of moderately fertile loam soils on limestone. It is gently sloping to flat with some escarpments and gullies and poor to moderate drainage. The average rainfall is 55 - 60 centimetres.

This area was characterised by a woodland community dominated by Drooping Sheoke Yellow Gum and Swamp Gum with a shrubby and grassy understorey. Understorey species included a variety of Wattle species Silver Banksia and scattered Boobialla.

Kangaroo Grass would have been commonly found growing among Eucalypt (Yellow Gum and Swamp Gum) and Sheoke species through much of the drier areas. Tussock Grass grew among the other Eucalypt species (River Red Gum and Manna Gum) on low lying wetter areas and along watercourses.

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	-
Black Sheoke	Allocasuarina littoralis	4-8	2-5	X	-
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	Y
Manna Gum	Eucalyptus viminalis	10-20	8-15	-	YS
Cherry Ballart	Exocarpos cupressiformis	3-8	3-5	Y	X
Moonah	Melaluca lanceolata	1-8	3-6	X	YP
Shrub Species
Silver Wattle	Acacia dealbata	6-15	5-10	-	Y
Hedge Wattle	Acacia paradoxa	2-4	2-5	Y	-
Coast Wirilda	Acacia retinodes var. uncifolia	4-8	3-5	YL	-
Prickly Moses	Acacia verticillata	2-6	3-5	-	Y
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	-
Shrub Everlasting	Chrysocephalum ferrugineus	2-6	1-3	-	Y
Smooth Parrot-pea	Dillwynia glaberrima	1-2	1-2	Y	-
Hop Goodenia	Goodenia ovata	1-2.5	1-3	Y	-
Woolly Tea-tree	Leptospermum lanigerum	2-6	1-3	-	Y
Common Boobialla	Myoporum insulare	1-6	3	Y	-
Sticky Boobialla	Myoporum viscosum	0.5-2	1.5-2	Y	-
Kangaroo Island Pomaderris	Pomaderris halmaturina ssp. continentis	1-3	1-2	YU	-
Groundcover and tussock species
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	-
L - only on limestone for example: Waurn Ponds
P - possibly on escarpments
S - on sandy alluvial deposits
X - species once occurred in this area
Y - species is present in areas of remnant vegetation