This park preserves an uncommon vegetation type for theIt is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunctMount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ..., the principal vegetation being a low ''Eucalyptus baxteri ''Eucalyptus baxteri'', commonly known as brown stringybark, is a medium-sized tree that is endemic the south-east of Australia. It has rough, stringy bark to the thinnest branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, green to yellow flower bud ...'' open forest over banksia scrub. This habitat supports a wide variety of bird species including the threatened scaly thrush and thebeautiful firetail The beautiful firetail (''Stagonopleura bella'') is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000 km2. The species inhabits temperate shrubland habitats in Australia. Th .... Notable mammal species are ''Isoodon obesulus The southern brown bandicoot (''Isoodon obesulus'') is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word ''). Taxonomy George Shaw ...'', locally endangered and '' Rattus lutreolus'', near the northern limit of its range in South Australia... The park occupies an area of undulating sands overlying ironstone. Vegetation is chiefly an open scrub to low open forest of ''Eucalyptus baxteri'', ''E. cosmophylla'' and ''E. fasciculosa'' over a heath understorey dominated by ''Banksia ornata ''Banksia ornata'', commonly known as desert banksia, is a species of shrub that is Endemism, endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. The Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray region in South Australia know it as yelakut. It has thin ...''. Extensive areas of almost pure sand heath dominated by ''Banksia ornata'' with ''Hakea ''Hakea'' ( ) is a genus of about 150 species of plants in the Family '' Proteaceae'', endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with leaves that are sometimes flat, otherwise circular in cross section in which case they are sometimes ...'', ''Casuarina ''Casuarina'' is a genus of 17 tree species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa. It was once treated as the sole genus in the fam ...'', ''Grevillea ''Grevillea'', commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants in the genus ''Grevillea'' are shrubs, rarely trees, with the leaves arranged alternately along the ...'', ''Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus n ...'' and ''Calytrix ''Calytrix'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1806. They are commonly known as starflowers. ''Calytrix'' are endemic to Australia, occurring in the (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and W ...'' species also occur... The park is in a minimally disturbed condition, the only previous landuse being beekeeping. Few introduced plant species are found in the park, rabbits are plentiful.
See also
* Cox Scrub Conservation ReserveReferences
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