Native plants for South Australia — pre-European vegetation
Enter any South Australian address and read the pre-European vegetation that stood there — then plant back into it.
Mixed · floristic (ag zone) / subgroup (elsewhere)Enter any South Australian address and read the pre-European vegetation that stood there — then plant back into it.
Mixed · floristic (ag zone) / subgroup (elsewhere)South Australia has detailed pre-European floristic mapping, but only across the agricultural region — the cleared, settled crescent from the South East through the Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide and Yorke Peninsula to the Eyre Peninsula. Through the pastoral and arid two-thirds of the state, that layer stops.
Outside the agricultural region — and at times when the state's mapping service is unavailable — we read the national NVIS 7.0 pre-1750 layer instead, and tell you which one you're seeing. Either way you get an honest, sourced answer rather than a blank.
South Australia's pre-European types are structured to the national NVIS hierarchy, which means the dominant species are embedded in the vegetation-type description. We surface what the mapping gives, and are building indigenous planting lists on top.
SA Pre-European Vegetation + NVIS 7.0. South Australia Pre-European Vegetation (agricultural region), Department for Environment and Water; national fallback NVIS 7.0 pre-1750, DCCEEW.