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

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Level to Depressed Plains

Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees
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 Goonawarra Nature Reserve, Oxley State Forest, Merrowie Ck north of Booligal.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia salicina Cooba
Acacia victoriae Prickly Wattle
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Austrostipa nitida Balcarra Speargrass
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Crassula colorata Dense Stonecrop
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Haloragis aspera Rough Raspwort
Mimulus gracilis Slender Monkey flower
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Stemodia florulenta Blue Rod
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach
Vittadinia cervicularis Annual New Holland Daisy

 

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 Corrong Rd, approximately 13km west of Cobb Highway, Freshwater Rd, 16km north of Oxley (dieback).
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex stipitata Bitter Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia connata Clustered Sea-heath
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Maireana turbinata Satiny Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Plantago drummondii Dark Sago weed
Podolepis muelleri Small Copper wire Daisy
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Velleia paradoxa Spur Velleia

 

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 Freshwater Rd, Oxley – Ivanhoe Rd.
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
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana appressa Grey Bluebush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Maireana sedifolia Pearl Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum Water Weed
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena 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
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Dysphania pumilio Small Crumbweed
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