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:

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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 understorey of grasses or shrubs.
Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee floodplain around Hay, scattered creeklines along the Lachlan Valley Way south-east of Hillston.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
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
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum phylliraeoides 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
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Rumex tenax Dock
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio quadridentatus Cotton Fireweed
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Teucrium racemosum Grey Germander

 

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 Booligal State Forest, Cabbage Garden Creek, Muckerumba Swamp.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa Native Liquorice
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Atriplex suberecta Lagoon Saltbush
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Dysphania melanocarpa Black Crumbweed
Cressa australis Rosinweed
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pallens Pale Spike-rush
Eleocharis plana Ribbed Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Juncus aridicola Tussock Rush
Juncus flavidus Yellow Rush
Juncus radula Hoary Rush
Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Sida fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

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 One Tree exclosure plot, Booligal Rd approx. 10 km south-east of Booligal.
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Abutilon halophilum Plains Lantern bush
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Frankenia connata Clustered Sea-heath
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
Sclerolaena intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
Sclerolaena stelligera Star Copperburr
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Cotula bipinnata Ferny Cotula
Daucus glochidiatus Australian Carrot
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Leiocarpa leptolepis Stalked Plover-daisy
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Panicum decompositum Native Millet
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida trichopoda High Sida
Sporobolus caroli Fairy Grass