Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands
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The Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands cover the north-south ranges and hills of South Australia, including the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, the Fleurieu Peninsula, and Kangaroo Island around the city of Adelaide. The landscape is a mosaic of eucalypt woodlands, acacia forests, Callitris (cypress-pine) forests, mallee shrublands, tussock and hummock grasslands, and chenopod and samphire shrublands, with sugar gum, cypress-pine, black oak, and golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha) among its characteristic plants. Its climate is broadly Mediterranean, with cool wet winters grading into a more summer-rain regime toward the north, and orographic rainfall on the higher peaks. Plant endemism is relatively high, but the region is among Australia's most heavily altered: much of the southern country has been cleared for agriculture and viticulture, over 95 percent has been grazed by livestock, and invasive foxes, rabbits, cats, goats, and donkeys continue to degrade the remaining habitat. The flagship species is the Adelaide pygmy blue-tongued skink, with protected refuges including the Ikara-Flinders Ranges and Mount Remarkable National Parks.
About the mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub biome
Regions of hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters supporting drought-adapted shrublands — chaparral, maquis, fynbos — and open woodlands. Fire is a natural shaping force, and these climates hold extraordinary plant diversity and endemism.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.