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:

Four Corners

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 Oolambeyan National Park.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
A. pendula Boree
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Senna artemisioides subsp. circinnata Spring pod Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena birchii Galvanised Bassia
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Calotis scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
M. enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Swainsona procumbens Broughton Pea
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 Oolambeyan National Park, Boorooban State Forest, Steam Plains State Forest, Edgar State Forest.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
A. 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 angustifolium Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
S. lanceolatum Sandalwood
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Callistemon brachyandrus Prickly Bottlebrush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Olearia pimeleoides Showy Daisy-bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena diacantha Grey Copperburr
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Actinobole uliginosum Flannel Cudweed
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Dactyloctenium radulans Button Grass
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis lacunaria Purple Lovegrass
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida

 

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 Cobb Highway north of Wanganella, Cobb Highway between Boorooban and Hay.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
S. stelligera Star Copperburr
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Calotis scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Goodenia fascicularis Silky Goodenia
Leiocarpa tomentosa Woolly Plover daisy
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida ammophila Sand Sida
S. trichopoda High Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed