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:

Carrathool (western)

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 Gum Creek.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata Spring pod Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Lycium australe Australian Boxthorn
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lepidium pseudohyssopifolium Peppercress
Maireana excavata Bottle Fissure weed
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Ptilotus exaltatus var. exaltatus Showy Foxtail
Thysanotus baueri Mallee Fringe lily
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

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.
Alluvial or aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE No intact examples remain, disturbed example of a prior stream on Wrights Lane 5 km north of Carrathool.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus populnea subsp. bimbil Bimble Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Mulga Fern
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Jasminum didymum subsp. lineare Native Jasmine
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy

 

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 Mid Western Highway 25 – 45 km north of Hay.
TREES >8M ??? ???
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Abutilon halophilum Plains Lantern bush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Calotis scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon ramosus Curly Windmill Grass
Erodium crinitum Blue Crowfoot
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Leiocarpa leptolepis Stalked Plover-daisy
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Swainsona murrayana Slender Darling Pea
Swainsona procumbens Broughton Pea