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:

Murrakool (northern)

Shallow Wetland Lunettes and Sand Ridges Level to Depressed Plains
LANDFORM Shallow Wetland
VEGETATION TYPE Shallow Wetland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Seasonal or intermittent wetland, meadow, marsh, lake or lagoon with fringing River Red Gum and/or Grey Box.
Alluvial, heavy grey clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Lake Genoe, Lake Poon Boon, wetlands along the Niemur River.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
GROUND COVERS Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Cyperus gymnocaulos Spiny Sedge
Eleocharis sphacelata Tall Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
J. ingens Giant Rush
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis Water Primrose
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Nymphoides crenata Wavy Marshwort
Ottelia ovalifolia Swamp Lily
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Persicaria decipiens Slender Knotweed
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Potamogeton crispus Curly Pondweed
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Pseudoraphis spinescens Spiny Mud-grass
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
T. orientalis Cumbungi
Vallisneria australis. Eel-weed

 

LANDFORM 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.
Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Barham – Moulamein Rd between Colenso Park Rd and Wakool River, eastern part of Coonamit Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
C. gracilis Murray Cypress Pine
Casuarina pauper Black Oak
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle
A. oswaldii Miljee
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila deserti Ellangowan Poison-bush
E. longifolia Emubush
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum lanceolatum Sandalwood
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida jerichoensis No. 9 Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enneapogon nigricans Pappus Grass
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
L. leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush

 

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 No intact examples remain south of Billabong Creek, formerly occurred between Swan Hill and Kyalite.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia melvillei Myall
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. brevifolia Yanga Bush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena 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
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
M. enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
M. pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass