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:

Booligal

Deep Wetland Shallow Depressions

Level to Depressed Plains

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 Merrowie Creek opposite Alma homestead.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m ??? ???
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Senecio runcinifolius Tall Groundsel
Verbena officinalis Common Verbena
GROUND COVERS Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Damasonium minus Starfruit
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eleocharis pusilla Small Spike-rush
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriophyllum crispatum Common Water-milfoil
Ottelia ovalifolia Swamp Lily
Persicaria decipiens Slender Knotweed
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Vallisneria australis. Eel-weed

 

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 Boxyards Rd, approximately 14km west of Booligal, Goonawarra Nature Reserve.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Abutilon halophilum Plains Lantern bush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Juncus radula Hoary Rush
Lavatera plebeia Australian Hollyhock
Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
Lythrum hyssopifolia Hyssop Loosestrife
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Rumex crystallinus Shiny Dock
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel

 

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 Corrong Rd, approximately 13km west of Cobb Highway, Freshwater Rd, 16km north of Oxley (dieback).
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex stipitata Bitter Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia connata Clustered Sea-heath
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Maireana turbinata Satiny Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Plantago drummondii Dark Sago weed
Podolepis muelleri Small Copper wire Daisy
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Velleia paradoxa Spur Velleia