Native plants for Western Australia — Beard's pre-European vegetation
Enter any Western Australian address and read the pre-European vegetation association that stood there, from Beard's statewide mapping.
Association level · Beard pre-EuropeanEnter any Western Australian address and read the pre-European vegetation association that stood there, from Beard's statewide mapping.
Association level · Beard pre-EuropeanWestern Australia's pre-European vegetation was mapped by John Beard, whose 1:250,000 vegetation survey of the whole state was digitised and published as Beard et al. (2013). It's the only genuinely statewide pre-European layer for WA, and it's what we read for every WA address.
At 1:250,000 the answer is a broad vegetation association, not a garden-scale community — for a suburban Perth block you'll get the dominant structure and species of the wider landscape rather than a precise site type. It's coarser than the community-level mapping in NSW, Victoria and Queensland, but far more specific than the national subgroups, and it's genuinely pre-European.
Usefully, Beard's mapping names the dominant species in each unit — so a Darling Range result returns not just “jarrah and marri” but Eucalyptus marginata and Corymbia calophylla. We surface those species directly on your result, and are building fuller indigenous planting lists on top.
WA Beard Pre-European Vegetation (1:250,000). Beard, Beeston, Harvey, Hopkins & Shepherd (2013), digitised from Beard's working drawings. Served via DPIRD / SLIP.