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Vegetation Communities
There are 32 vegetation communities identified within Pittwater. These communities are currently being assessed and mapped to take into consideration recent listings of Endangered Ecological Communities under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, and to provide accurate vegetation maps for future planning and conservation purposes.
If you have a Development Application with conditions relating to planting locally native plants, or you are preparing a Landscape Plan, the Native Plants for Your Garden page will give you the location of vegetation communities and a list of plant species for each community.
The 32 communities listed below provide a more comprehensive coverage of vegetation communities in Pittwater.
Vegetation communities found in Pittwater are:
- Angophora floribunda Open Forest
- Avalon Open Forest/Woodland
- Cabbage Tree Palm Forest
- Coastal Clay Heath
- Coastal Dune
- Coastal Sandstone Woodland
- Coastal Shale Forest
- Coastal Shale Stringybark Forest
- Estuaries
- Hawkesbury Sandstone Gully (Closed Forest)
- Hawkesbury Sandstone Low Woodland
- Hawkesbury Sandstone Open-forest
- Heathland
- Lower Ingleside Escarpment Forest
- Mangroves
- Moist Shale Forest
- Mona Vale Forest
- Red Bloodwood-Scribbly Gum Woodland
- Sandstone Heath
- Sandstone Rocky Heath
- Sandstone Wet Heath/Hanging Swamp
- Seagrasses
- Shale Forest
- Wetlands
- Yellow Top Ash Low Woodland
This is in addition to the Endangered Ecological Communities.
Updated: 07 Dec 2011