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:

Booroorban

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges Level to Depressed Plains
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 Floodplains of Coleambally and Billabong Creeks.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila maculata Spotted Fuchsia
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Amaranthus macrocarpus Dwarf Amaranth
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander
Roepera glauca Pale Twinleaf

 

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 Tchelery exclusion plot, Tchelery Rd east of Tchelery Woolshed, Keri East Rd, Moulamein Rd 3 km north of Wanganella-Moulamein Rd, Booroorban State Forest.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina pauper Belah
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia ligulata Sandhill Wattle
Acacia melvillei Myall
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Pimelea microcephala Shrubby Rice-flower

Pittosporum angustifolium

 Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Santalum lanceolatum Sandalwood
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
Templetonia egena Desert Broombush
LOW SHRUBS <2m

 Chenopodium desertorum Desert Goosefoot
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Maireana turbinata Satiny Bluebush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Actinobole uliginosum Flannel Cudweed
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa nitida Balcarra Speargrass
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Plantago cunninghamii Sago weed
Rhodanthe stuartiana Clay Sunray
Vittadinia cervicularis Annual New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia luteola Yellowish Bluebell

 

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 Paradise exclusion plot, travelling stock reserve between Wanganella and Black Swamp, Tchelery Rd east of Miegunyah Rd.
TREES >8M ??? ???
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
LOW SHRUBS <2m

 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass