Topography and Vegetation
The Drummond Nature Reserve is constructed with a series of lateritic hills with spillway deposits plus a small outcrop of bedrock. There have been ten different vegetation areas identified, and these are based on different soil types, topography and drainage. The area has six different woodland types, two granite heath types, a mallee vegetation type and the last two claypan wetland areas remaining in the state.
The North west corner is a Wandoo Woodland that has been affected by salinity most of the trees are either dead or affect by dieback, the understory has died and been replace by weeds. The granite areas have two types one is an area covered by Xanthorrhoea preissii, Gastrolobium calycinum with a Borya herbfield and the other is dominated by Melaleuca, Dodonaea also with a herbfield of Borya. The soil of mallee area is a yellow sandy clay with the dominant plants being the low dense Eucalyptus drummondii and Allocasuarina.
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