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:

Savernake

Plains Shallow Wetland Deep Wetland
LANDFORM Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke.
Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Savernake area, Fergusons Tank Travelling Stock Reserve, Wangamong Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. brachybotrya Grey Wattle
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata Spoon leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
S. a. subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge leaf Hopbush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera denticulata Lesser Joyweed
Arthropodium minus Small Vanilla-lily
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Leptorhynchos elongatus Lanky Buttons
L. panaetioides Woolly Buttons
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida

 

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 Native Dog Swamp.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Duma florulenta Lignum
GROUND COVERS Alisma plantago-aquatica Water Plantain
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus macrorhinus Long-nosed Swamp Wallaby-grass
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Carex tereticaulis Rush Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Elatine gratioloides Waterwort
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus ingens Giant Rush
Lythrum hyssopifolia Hyssop Loosestrife
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriophyllum crispatum Common Water-milfoil
Nymphoides crenata Wavy Marshwort
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Persicaria hydropiper Waterpepper
P. prostrata Creeping Knotweed
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Deep Wetland
VEGETATION TYPE Deep Wetland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Semi-permanent wetland, billabong, lake or old creek bed often with fringing River Red Gum.
Alluvial, heavy grey clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No example known.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
GROUND COVERS Cyperus gymnocaulos Spiny Sedge
Eleocharis sphacelata Tall Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus ingens Giant Rush
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis Water Primrose
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
P. ochreatus Blunt Pondweed
Pseudoraphis spinescens Spiny Mud-grass
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
T. orientalis Cumbungi
Vallisneria australis. Eel-weed