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:

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Level to Depressed Plains Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees
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
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia connata Clustered Sea-heath
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
Sclerolaena intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
Sclerolaena 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

 

LANDFORM Prior Streams, 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.
Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mid Western Highway north of Illiliwa Siding (prior stream), northern end of Lara Rd (sand ridge), McKinley Rd south of McKinley.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Mulga Fern
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy

 

 

 

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 Yurdyilla Road near Mywurlee Station, Booligal Road east of Wongalea Road, Wongalea Road.
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
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
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
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough 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
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