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:

Conoble (western)

Shallow Depressions Level to Depressed Plains Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees
LANDFORM Shallow Depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Lignum-Goosefoot-Canegrass
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 Willandra Creek at the Cobb Highway crossing, south of Ivanhoe
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 Black Rolypoly
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
A. suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
E. pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
J. 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

 

LANDFORM Level to Depressed Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Bladder Saltbush Chenopod Shrubland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Bladder Saltbush and other chenopods.
Alluvial, grey, self-mulching and cracking clays to red duplex soils with grey and brown clays, sometimes saline.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Trida – Willandra National Park Rd, Trida exclusion plot.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Eremophila longifolia Slender-fruited Saltbush
E. sturtii Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea Mealy Saltbush
S. a. subsp. petiolaris Spiny-fruit Saltbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m

Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata Baldoo
A. leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. spinibractea Spiny-fruit Saltbush
A. spongiosa Pop Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Frankenia serpyllifolia Bristly Sea heath
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. erioclada Rosy Bluebush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum Water Weed
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Scleroblitum atriplicinum Purple Goosefoot
Sclerolaena intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
S. lanicuspis Woolly Copperburr
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Amaranthus macrocarpus Dwarf Amaranth
Astrebla pectinata Barley Mitchell Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
A. suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Brachyscome lineariloba Hard head Daisy
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Daucus glochidiatus Australian Carrot
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
D. paradoxus Cannon-ball
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
E. brownii Browns Lovegrass
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Leptorhynchos panaetioides Woolly Buttons
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
M. denticulata Woolly Minuria
M. integerrima Smooth Minuria
Plantago cunninghamii Sago weed
Ptilotus nobilis Regal Foxtail
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
R. floribunda Common White Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
S. trichopoda High Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach
Roepera glauca Pale Twinleaf
Zygophyllum iodocarpum Violet Twinleaf

 

LANDFORM Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Black / Pearl Bluebush Chenopod Shrubland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Pearl Bluebush and/or Black Bluebush.
Aeolian, deep calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoil.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Trida exclusion plot, Cobb Highway approx. 15 km south of Ivanhoe.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia melvillei Myall
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata Baldoo
A. leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana appressa Grey Bluebush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
M. sedifolia Pearl Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
S. intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa nitida Balcarra Speargrass
A. scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Dysphania pumilio Small Crumbweed
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Crassula colorata Dense Stonecrop
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis dielsii Mulka
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lepidium monoplocoides Winged Peppercress
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Panicum decompositum Native Millet
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena