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:

Cowabbie Creek

River, Creeklines and Low Country Flats Rocky Outcrops
LANDFORM River, Creeklines and Low Country
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Tall Grassy Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Loamy-sandy soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Cowabbie Creek, Dead Horse Creek, ephemeral creeks
TREES >8M Acacia pendula Boree
A. salicina Cooba
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina  cristata Belah
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakeley’s Red gum
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. populnea Bimble Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Deanes wattle
A. montana Mallee wattle
Cenopod desertorium  Desert Goosefoot
Dodonea cuneata Cut leaf Hop bush
Senna artemisoides subsp. zygophylla Punty bush
GROUND COVERS Anthrosachme scabra Common Wheatgrass
Austrostipa scabra Rough Speargrass
Calostemma purpurem Garland Lily
Carex inversa  Knob Sedge
Centipedia cunninghamii Common sneezeweed
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Clustered Everlasting
Einadia nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eleocharis plana Flat Spike Rush
E. pusilla Hair Grass
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Juncus usitatus Common Rush
Maireana microphylla Small leaf Bluebush
Marsilea drummondii Nardoo
Poa sieberiana Snowgrass
Rytidosperma caespitosum Ringed Wallaby Grass
R. elegantissima Feathery Speargrass

 

LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Sandy-loam to clay-loam soils on alluvial or stagnant alluvial plains
LOCATION EXAMPLE Walleroobie State Forest
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping She oak
Brachychiton populnea Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Casuarina leumanni Bulloak
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakley’s Red gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. populnea Bimble Box
E. sideroxlyn Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia baileyana Cootamundra Wattle
A. buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. cardiophylla Wyalong Wattle
A. deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. oswaldi Miljee
A. Pardadoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe Myrtle
Daviesia mimosoides Blunt-leaf Bitter pea
D.ulicifolia Gorse Bitter-pea
D. cuneata Cut-leaf Hopbush
D. viscosa Sticky Hopbush
Myoporum montanum Water-bush
Pultenaea largiflorens Twiggy Bitter-pea
Senna artemissoides Punty Bush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa elegantissima Feather Speargrass
A. scabra Rough Speargrass
Calostemma  purpurem Garland Lily
Cheilanthes sieberi Mulga fern
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Clustered Everlasting
Dianella revoluta Black-anther Flax-lily
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila debilis Winter Apples
Lomandra filiformis Wattle matt-rush
L. multiflora Many-flowered  Mat-rush
Maireana microphylla Small-leaf Bluebush
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Poa sieberiana Blue Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma caespitosum Ringed Wallaby Grass
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles

 

LANDFORM Rocky Outcrops
VEGETATION TYPE Currawang Shrubby Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Shallow gravel, sandy or loamy soils derived from sandstone, conglomerate, chert, granite and volcanics on rocky hills, hill slopes and footslopes on isolated rocky ridges
LOCATION EXAMPLE Beckom Hill
TREES >8M Allocasuarina vericillata Drooping She-oak
Eucalyptus dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. sideroxlyon Ironbark
E. viridis Green Mallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western golden Wattle
A. doratoxylon Currawang
A. montana Mallee Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Heath Myrtle
Dodonea boronifolia Fern leaf Hopbush
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
GROUND COVERS Anthrosachme scabra Common Wheatgrass
Austrostipa scabra Rough Speargrass
Cheilanthes sieberi Mulga fern
Dianella porracea  Smooth flax Lily
D. revoluta black anther Flax Lily
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Matt Rusj
L. multiflora Many flowered Matt Rush
Poa sieberiana Snowgrass
Rytidosperma caesiptosum Common Wallaby Grass