For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Booligal (Southern)

Reed Bed Rivers and Floodplains  Shallow Depressions
LANDFORM Reed Bed
VEGETATION TYPE Reed Bed.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Deep wetland dominated by Bulrushes.
Alluvial, heavy grey clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Great Cumbung Swamp, Lake Tala, Lake Bunumburt.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m ??? ???
LOW SHRUBS <2m
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GROUND COVERS Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Cotula coronopifolia Waterbuttons
Cyperus gymnocaulos Spiny Sedge
Damasonium minus Starfruit
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Persicaria decipiens Slender Knotweed
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Potamogeton crispus Curly Pondweed
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
Typha orientalis Cumbungi
Vallisneria australis Eel-weed

 

LANDFORM Rivers, Floodplains and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Riverine Forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs.
Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Goonawarra Nature Reserve, Oxley State Forest, McFarlands State Forest, Quandong State Forest.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia salicina Cooba
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
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GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Cardamine paucijuga Annual Bitter cress
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Carex tereticaulis Rush Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Damasonium minus Starfruit
Eclipta platyglossa Yellow Twin heads
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pusilla Small Spike-rush
Eleocharis sphacelata Tall Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Glinus lotoides Hairy Carpet-weed
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis Water Primrose
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Mentha australis River Mint
Mimulus gracilis Slender Monkey flower
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Nymphoides crenata Wavy Marshwort
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
Ranunculus lappaceus Common Buttercup
Ranunculus pumilio Ferny Buttercup
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
Typha orientalis Cumbungi
Vallisneria australis Eel-weed
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell
Wahlenbergia gracilenta s.s. Annual Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Shallow Depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermittent flooding.
Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Boxyards Rd, approximately 14km west of Booligal, Goonawarra Nature Reserve.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Abutilon halophilum Plains Lantern bush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Juncus radula Hoary Rush
Lavatera plebeia Australian Hollyhock
Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
Lythrum hyssopifolia Hyssop Loosestrife
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Rumex crystallinus Shiny Dock
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel