Eucalypt Woodlands

Form a transitional zone between the higher rainfall, forested margins of the continent and the hummock grasslands and shrublands of the arid interior.
Widespread throughout the mountain ranges and plains west of the Great Dividing Range in eastern Australia and east of the subcoastal ranges in the south-west of Western Australia.
Include a series of communities which have come to typify inland Australia (e.g. the box and ironbark woodlands of eastern Australia).
Understoreys may vary from grasses to shrubs and in some cases have attained a parkland appearance due to frequent fire and grazing. The parkland appearance is reflected in early landscape paintings providing a strong sense of place for many Australians.

Eucalypt Woodlands are the most extensively cleared and modified vegetation, particularly in the agricultural zones of eastern Australia and in the south-west of Western Australia. In many regions only small isolated fragments remain, often only along creeks, road verges and rocky outcrops.

Photos from the Australian Plant Image Index

Sources: Australia's Native Vegetation - from rainforest to spinifex, map and information poster produced by the National Land & Water Audit, Natural Heritage Trust, Australian Government, 2001
Australia's Native Vegetation - A summary of Australia's Major Vegetation Groups, 2007, Australian Government website
Map: https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/a9897cf2-9d38-4201-bea2-13dadf3af9a8/files/major-veg-summary.pdf
Structure diagram: Atlas of Australian Resources - Vol. 6, Vegetation, AUSLIG, Canberra, 1990

GROWING AUSTRALIAN PLANTS

ACT (CANBERRA) REGION