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 (eastern)

Level to Depressed Plains Sandplains and Low Rises Sandplains and Minor Dunefields
LANDFORM Level to Depressed Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Boree Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Boree with a mainly herbaceous understorey.
Alluvial, grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE McKinley Rd north of Crowsnest Rd.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble 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
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata Spring pod Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Lycium australe Australian Boxthorn
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Senna aciphylla Sprawling Cassia
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium Peppercress
Maireana excavata Bottle Fissure weed
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus Showy Foxtail
Thysanotus baueri Mallee Fringe lily
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

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 Green Hills Track west of Goolgowi.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina pauper Belah
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Apophyllum anomalum Warrior Bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. coriacea Broad leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex stipitata Bitter Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Maireana humillima Dwarf Bluebush
Ptilotus spathulatus Pussy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Swainsona formosa Sturts Desert Pea

 

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 McKinlay Rd near McKinlay.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
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
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex eardleyae Small Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena patenticuspis Spear fruit Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Dianella revoluta s.s. Spreading Flax-lily
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Ptilotus spathulatus Pussy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Rhodanthe polygalifolia Brilliant Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida intricata Twiggy Sida
Thyridolepis mitchelliana Mulga Grass