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.

Vegetation Profile:

Berriquin

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Shallow Depressions 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 Tholobin State Forest, Mairjimmy State Forest, Maddison Square Travelling Stock Reserve, Crossleys Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida

 

LANDFORM Shallow Depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermittent flooding.
Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Nangunia Swamp, Moonee Swamp Rd, South Coree Rd (Nth section), Wangamong Creek.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa Native Liquorice
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Cressa australis Rosinweed
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eleocharis plana Ribbed Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Juncus aridicola Tussock Rush
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Juncus radula Hoary Rush
Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
Typha orientalis Cumbungi
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

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.
Grey and brown clays, or sometimes on red-brown earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Conargo – Jerilderie Rd, Travelling Stock Reserve 987 on the Deniliquin-Conargo Rd.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
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 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
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 gracilis s.s. Australian Bluebell
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy