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:

Wakool

Level to Depressed Plains Prior Streams, Lunettes and Sand Ridges Level to Depressed Plains
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 Moulamein No 8 Channel, Rd to Wanganella, Jackson Weir Rd.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Rytidosperma setacea Small flowered Wallaby Grass
Austrostipa nodosa Knotty Speargrass
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Calotis hispidula Bogan Flea
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Cotula australis Common Cotula
Crassula colorata Dense Stonecrop
Crassula decumbens var. decumbens Spreading Crassula
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria integerrima Smooth Minuria
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Plantago turrifera Small Sago weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Rumex tenax Dock
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Swainsona murrayana Slender Darling Pea
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed
Wahlenbergia gracilenta s.s. Annual Bluebell
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy

 

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.
Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Conargo Rd at Tholobin (prior stream), western end of Wanganella Rd (sand ridge).
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia rigens Needle Wattle
Acacia salicina Cooba
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge leaf Hopbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Aristida jerichoensis No. 9 Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Clematis microphylla Small-leaved Clematis
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enneapogon nigricans Pappus Grass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis lacunaria Purple Lovegrass
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
Lomandra 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 Most sites are degraded, Moulamein Rd west of Pretty Pine.
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
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach