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:

Cocoparra

Sandplains and Low Rises Sandplains and Minor Dunefields

Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests
LANDFORM Sandplains and Low Rises
VEGETATION TYPE Belah – Rosewood Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes.
Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No intact examples known, formerly occurred between Goolgowi and Tabbita.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina pauper Belah
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Apophyllum anomalum Warrior Bush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea Broad leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex stipitata Bitter Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Swainsona formosa Sturts Desert Pea
Roepera glauca Pale Twinleaf

 

LANDFORM Sandplains and Minor Dunefields
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland (Sandplains and minor dunefields).
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 Binya State Forest, lower end of Bingar Track in Cocoparra National Park.
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus dwyeri Dwyers Mallee Gum
Eucalyptus intertexta Red Box
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia calamifolia Wallowa
Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Bertya cunninghamii Gooma Bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata Spoon leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Chenopodium desertorum Desert Goosefoot
Eremophila glabra Tar Bush
Goodenia ovata Hop Goodenia
GROUND COVERS Ajuga australis Australian Bugle
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. scabra Rough Speargrass
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Cassytha melantha Mallee Strangle vine
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Podolepis arachnoidea Clustered Copper wire Daisy
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily

 

LANDFORM Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests
VEGETATION TYPE Mallee Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts.
Aeolian, sandy red loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Nericon Travelling Stock Reserve, Pulletop Nature Reserve.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia rigens Needle Wattle
Bertya cunninghamii Gooma Bush
Bossiaea walkeri Cactus Pea
Eucalyptus dumosa Congoo Mallee
Eucalyptus gracilis Yorrell
Eucalyptus leptophylla Slender-leaf Mallee
Eucalyptus socialis Pointed Mallee
Eucalyptus viridis Green Mallee
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Acacia lineata Streaked Wattle
Daviesia arenaria Sandhill Bitter-pea
Dodonaea boroniifolia Fern-leaf Hopbush
Eutaxia microphylla s.s. Mallee Bush-pea
Olearia pimeleoides Showy Daisy-bush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa elegantissima Feather Speargrass
Dianella revoluta s.s. Spreading Flax-lily
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
Scaevola humilis Sandplain Fan flower
Solanum coactiliferum Felted Nightshade
Triodia scariosa Porcupine Grass
Vittadinia pterochaeta Rough Fuzzweed
Waitzia acuminata Orange Immortelle