Preferred habitats include eucalypt-dominated sclerophyll forest, and farmland adjacent to trees. It is less commonly encountered in shrubland, heath, or margins of wet sclerophyll forest. Hinterlands are particularly distinctive on account of extensive sclerophyll shrublands known as maquis, or garrigues. In occurs naturally on sandstone in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest. The yellow-footed antechinus occupies a variety of habitats, including dry arid scrubland and sclerophyll forest. Tasmanian devils particularly like dry sclerophyll forests and coastal woodlands. Instead, it is rolling hills and plains vegetated by sclerophyll scrubland. Found in wet sclerophyll or grassy coastal forests. They are restricted to rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests. It grows beside streams and in coastal swamps in heath and dry sclerophyll forest. In the southern Byadbo wilderness area, dry sclerophyll and wattle forests predominate. The usual habitat is open sclerophyll forest and woodland. It is found in sheltered habitats in wet sclerophyll and rainforest. They prefer wetter, more timbered areas such as sclerophyll forests. It is also occasionally found in sclerophyll woodlands.