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:

Merriwagga

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Valleys and Floodplains Sandplains and Minor Dunefields
LANDFORM Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains
VEGETATION TYPE Black Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs.
Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Lachlan River Rd opposite Dalkeith.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus intertexta Red Box
E. largiflorens Black Box
E. populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia pendula Boree
A. salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Sclerolaena lanicuspis Woolly Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Calotis lappulacea Yellow Burr daisy
C. scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Minuria leptophylla Minnie Daisy
Sida cunninghamii Ridge Sida
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Vittadinia condyloides Club hair New Holland Daisy
V. gracilis Woolly New Holland Daisy

 

LANDFORM Valleys and Floodplains
VEGETATION TYPE Bimble Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open Bimble Box woodland on floodplains and wide valleys with grassy understorey.
Alluvial, red loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Kidman Way east of Hillston.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Casuarina pauper Black Oak
Eremophila mitchellii Budda
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia salicina Cooba
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Sclerolaena lanicuspis Woolly Copperburr
GROUND COVERS

 Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana humillima Dwarf Bluebush
Sida cunninghamii Ridge Sida
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Sandplains and Minor Dunefields
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Woodlands to tall woodland dominated by White Cypress Pine with emergent eucalypts and Belah on sandplains and minor dunefields.
Alluvial, red loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Kidman Way roadside south of the Lachlan River, Hillston – Merriwagga Rd, Monia Gap Rd approx. 8 km east of Hillston.
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
C. pauper Black Oak
Eucalyptus intertexta Red Box
E. populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia calamifolia Wallowa
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Apophyllum anomalum Warrior Bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Sclerolaena patenticuspis Spear fruit Copperburr
GROUND COVERS


 Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
R. polygalifolia Brilliant Sunray
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
X. viscosum Sticky Everlasting