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:

Gunbar (southern)

Rivers, Floodplains and Levees Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Level to Depressed Plains
LANDFORM Rivers, Floodplains and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Riverine Forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs.
Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee River east of the Cobb Highway at Hay.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Casuarina cunninghamiana subsp. cunninghamiana River Oak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Exocarpos sparteus Slender Cherry
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Arthropodium minus Small Vanilla-lily
Asperula conferta Common Woodruff
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Bulbine bulbosa Native Leek
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Dichondra repens Kidneyweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Goodenia glauca Pale Goodenia
Haloragis glauca f. glauca Grey Raspwort
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
L. longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Mentha australis River Mint
Microlaena stipoides Meadow Rice-grass
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
P. pleiocephalus Soft Billy buttons
Ranunculus lappaceus Common Buttercup
R. pumilio Ferny Buttercup
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander
Tricoryne elatior Yellow Rush-lily
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Vallisneria australis Eel-weed
Viola betonicifolia Showy Violet
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

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 Murrumbidgee floodplain around Hay, scattered creeklines along the Lachlan Valley Way south-east of Hillston.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
A. pendula Boree
A. salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m

Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena birchii Galvanised Bassia
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
S. stelligera Star Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Rumex tenax Dock
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio quadridentatus Cotton Fireweed
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
S. fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander

 

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 One Tree exclosure plot, Booligal Rd approx. 10 km south-east of Booligal.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Abutilon halophilum Plains Lantern bush
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia connata Clustered Sea-heath
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
S. intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
S.a muricata Five spined Bassia
S. stelligera Star Copperburr
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Cotula bipinnata Ferny Cotula
Daucus glochidiatus Australian Carrot
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Leiocarpa leptolepis Stalked Plover-daisy
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Panicum decompositum Native Millet
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida trichopoda High Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass