Vegetation
Vegetation refers to all individual plant species, including grasses, sedges, shrubs and trees and the communities or assemblages they form a part of. The Kempsey Shire has quite a diverse range of individual plant species as well as vegetation communities, ranging from coastal heathland, to sub-tropical, warm temperate and cool temperate rainforests. The Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) Assessment, completed in 1999-2000 identified the following major vegetation communities existing in the Shire:
- sub-tropical, warm temperate and cool temperate rainforest
- wet and dry sclerophyll forest
- swamp forest
- woodland eg Melaleuca, Eucalypt and Casuarina spp
- scrubland eg Banksia and Leptospermum spp
- grassland (native and modified) and pasture
- wetland, aquatic and marine eg saltmarshes, rushlands, mangroves, seagrass, etc.
- dunal communities eg littoral rainforest
- wet and dry heathland
- riparian vegetation.
For more information on the plant species inhabiting the Kempsey Shire please visit the National Parks Wildlife Atlas website at: http://wildlifeatlas.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/wildlifeatlas/watlas.jsp.
