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:

Carrathool (northern)

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Level to Depressed Plains Sandplains and Low Rises
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 Westons Travelling Stock Reserve, Amsbury Common, Whitton Common.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
Geijera parviflora Wilga
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
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata Spring pod Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Native Leek
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray

 

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 Gum Creek.
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 angustifolium 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
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 No examples known, see Gunbar sub-region.
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
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Pittosporum angustifolium 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