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:

Coleambally

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Level to Depressed Plains Lunettes and Sand Ridges
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 Darlington Point Travelling Stock Reserve, Tom Bullens Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black 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
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena birchii Galvanised Bassia
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Lipocarpha microcephala Button Rush
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander

 

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 Ugobit Travelling Stock Reserve, German Yards Travelling Stock Reserve, Jerrys Travelling Stock Reserve, McPhails Travelling Stock Reserve, Jukes Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black 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
Duma florulenta Lignum
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata Spring pod Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Arthropodium minus Small Vanilla-lily
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calocephalus citreus Lemon Beauty-heads
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Calotis scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Swainsona procumbens Broughton Pea
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

LANDFORM 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.
Aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Adjacent to Yanco Creek.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia deanei Deanes Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia salicina Cooba
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Santalum lanceolatum Sandalwood
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Aristida jerichoensis No. 9 Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enneapogon nigricans Pappus Grass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis lacunaria Purple Lovegrass
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Oxalis corniculata s.s. Yellow Wood sorrel
Paspalidium constrictum Box Grass
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida