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:

Conoble (eastern)

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 understorcy of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact
LOCATION EXAMPLE Willandra Creek in Willandra NP, Merrowie Creek
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla
River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largijlorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old Man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex leptocarpa  Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Rhagodia spinescens  Thorny Sahbush
Sclerolaena bicornis Goathead Burr
Sclerolaena lntrlcata Tangled Poverty-Bush
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera nodiflora Common Joyweed
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White-top
Austrostipa scabra ssp falcata Rough Speargrass
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Centipeda minima Spreading Sneezeweed
Centipeda thespidioides Desert Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat spurge
Convolvulus remotus Grassy Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogan acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Goodenia heteromera Spreading Goodenia
Haloragis aspera Rough Raspwort
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Leiocarpa leptolepis Stalked Plover-daisy
Juncus subsecundus Finger Rush
Mentha australis River Mint
Minuria integerrima Smooth Minuria
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Pratia concolor Poison Pratia
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Currugated Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Typha orientalis Cumbungi

 

LANDFORM Shallow Depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Lignum – Goosefoot / Canegrass Swamp
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open scrub to tussock grassland in depressions and low lying areas subject to intermitten flooding. Alluvial, heavy grey, cracking clays, sometimes slightly saline.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Willandra Creek at the Cobb Highway crossing, south of lvanhoe.
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 Black Rolypoly
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Austrostipa scabra ssp 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 plebia Australian Hollyhook
 Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
 Lythrum hyssopifolia Hyssop Loosestrife
 Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
 Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Wooly-heads
 Phragmites australis Common Reed
 Rumex crystallinus Shiny Dock
 Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel

 

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 Eastern end of Trida Rd near Roto.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia melvillei Myall
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa nodosa Knotty Speargrass
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed