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:

Hillston

Level to Depressed Plains Level to Depressed Plains Lunettes and Sand Ridges
LANDFORM Level to Depressed Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Boree Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey.
Alluvial, mainly red-brown clays and grey-brown cracking clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No intact examples in sub-region, Crowsnest Rd east of McKinley Road, McKinley Rd approximately 3km south of Lachlan Valley Way.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia pendula Boree
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Templetonia egena Desert Broombush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Lycium australe Australian Boxthorn
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calocephalus citreus Lemon Beauty-heads
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Erodium crinitum Blue Crowfoot
Gnephosis arachnoidea Erect Yellow-heads
Goodenia pusilliflora Small-flowered Goodenia
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Hyalosperma semisterile Orange Sunray
Leptorhynchos panaetioides Woolly Buttons
Maireana excavata Bottle Fissure weed
Maireana lobiflora Lobed Bluebush
Minuria leptophylla Minnie Daisy
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus Showy Foxtail
Rhodanthe floribunda Common White Sunray
Rhodanthe pygmaea Pygmy Sunray
Swainsona murrayana Slender Darling Pea
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach

 

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 Cobb Highway in vicinity of Toms Tank, Willandra National Park.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea Broad leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata Baldoo
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Atriplex spinibractea Spiny-fruit Saltbush
Atriplex spongiosa Pop Saltbush
Atriplex stipitata Bitter Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia serpyllifolia Bristly Sea heath
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana erioclada Rosy Bluebush
Maireana 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
Sclerolaena lanicuspis Woolly Copperburr
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Amaranthus macrocarpus Dwarf Amaranth
Astrebla pectinata Barley Mitchell Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex 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
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Eragrostis brownii Browns Lovegrass
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Leptorhynchos panaetioides Woolly Buttons
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Minuria denticulata Woolly Minuria
Minuria integerrima Smooth Minuria
Plantago cunninghamii Sago weed
Ptilotus nobilis Regal Foxtail
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Rhodanthe floribunda Common White Sunray
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Sida trichopoda High Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach
Roepera glauca Pale Twinleaf
Zygophyllum iodocarpum Violet Twinleaf

 

LANDFORM Lunettes and Sand Ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes).
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey.
Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No intact examples remain, The Lea west of Hillston on Mossgiel Trunk Rd.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus intertexta Red Box
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia melvillei Myall
Acacia victoriae Prickly Wattle
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex eardleyae Small Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Rytidosperma setacea Small flowered Wallaby Grass
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Austrostipa scabra subsp. scabra Rough Speargrass
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Dianella revoluta s.s. Spreading Flax-lily
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Minuria integerrima Smooth Minuria
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Ptilotus spathulatus Pussy tails
Rhodanthe polygalifolia Brilliant Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida intricata Twiggy Sida
Sida trichopoda High Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Thyridolepis mitchelliana Mulga Grass
Wahlenbergia gracilenta s.s. Annual Bluebell