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:

Mirrool Creek

Ephemeral Creeks and Riparian Rocky Outcrops Riverina Plains
LANDFORM Ephemeral Creeks and Riparian
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow/ Grey Box Tall Grassy woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Red, brown or yellow sandy or loamy soils on flats and rises on alluvial plains.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mirrool Creek at The Willows
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
A. pendula Boree
A. salicina Cooba
Allocasuarina luehmanni Bulloak
Casuarina cristata Belah
C. cunninghamiana River She-oak
Eucalyptus dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyers Mallee Gum
E. largiflorens Black Box
Melaleuca erubescens Pink Honey Myrtle
M. lanceolata Moonah
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia  decora Western Silver Wattle
A. baileyana Wyalong Wattle
A. brachybotrya Grey Wattle
A. buxifolia  Box leaf Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. difformis Drooping wattle
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. homalophylla Yarran
A. lineata Streaked Wattle
A. pendula Boree
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender fruited Saltbush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Boxthorn 
Duma florulenta Lignum
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Senna artemisoides subsp. artmisoides  Silver Cassia
S. artemisoides subsp. zygophylla Punty Bush
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Austrostipa densiflora Fox tail Speargrass
A. scabra Rough Speargrass
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Chenopodium murale Nettle-leaf Goosefoot
Dianella Revoluta Blueberry Lily
Einadia nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila debilis Winter apples
Juncus aridicola Tussock Rush
J. usitatus Common Rush
Lepidosperma laterale Variable Sword Sedge
Leptochloa digitata Umbrella Cane grass
Lomandra multiflora Many flowered Mat Rush
Marsilea drummondi Common Nardoo
Rytidosperma caespitosa White-top

 

LANDFORM Rocky Outcrops
VEGETATION TYPE Dwyers Red Gum Currawang Shrublands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Shallow gravel, sandy or loamy soils derived from sandstone, conglomerate, chert, granite and volcanics on rocky hills
LOCATION EXAMPLE Brobenah Trig Point
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticilata Drooping She-oak
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata  Belah
Eucalyptus blakelyii Blakely’s red Gum
E. dwyerii Dwyer’s Mallee Gum
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. populnea Bimble Box
E. viridus Green Mallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia brachybotrya Grey Mulga
A. calamifolia Wallowa
A. deanii Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. doratoxlyn Currawang
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. homalophylla Yarran
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rigens Needle Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Boxthorm
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe Myrtle
Daviesia ulicifolia Gorse Bitter-pea
Dodonea cuneata Cut-leaf Hopbush
D. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hopbush
D. boronifolia Fern-leaf Hopbush
D. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hopbush
Eutaxia microphylla Eutaxia
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pandorea pandorana Wonga Vine
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Platysace lanceolata Shrubby Platysace
Senna artemisoides Punty Bush
GROUND COVERS Amyema miquelli Box mistletoe
Austrostipa densiflora  Foxtail Speargrass
A. Scabra var falcata Rough Speargrass
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Dampiera lanceolata Grooved Dampiera
Daviesia ulicifolia Gorse Bitter Pea
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Einadia hastata Saloop
Eutaxia microphylla Common Eutaxia
Helichrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
H. semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
H. viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Indigofera australis Australian Indigo
Juncus sp. Rush
Lepidosperma laterale Variable Sword-sedge
Lomandra multiflora Many flowered Mat rush
Pandora pandorana  Wonga Vine
Prostanthera ovalifolia Purple Mintbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
R. setaceae A Small-flowered Wallaby grss
R. tenuior Wallaby Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda tinadra Kangaroo Grass
Thridolepis mitchelliana  Mulga Mitchell grass
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
X. viscosum Sticky Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Riverina Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Tall Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Red-brown earths soils comprising Quaternary alluvium often as terraces on old alluvial plains or undulating peneplain landforms overlaying a range of underlying rock types including sandstone.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Binya State Forest
TREES >8M Allocasuarina leumannii Buloke
A. verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus dumosa White Mallee
E. dwyerii Dwyer’s Mallee Gum
E. intertexta Gum Coolabah
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Inland Grey Box
E. populnea Bimble Box
E. socialis Red Mallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. doratoxlyn Currawang
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. homalophylla Yarran
A. oswaldii Miljee
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rigens Needle Wattle
Dampiera lancolata Grooved Dampiera
D. viscosa subs spathulata Sticky Hopbush
D. boronifolia Fern leaf Hopbush
D. viscosa subsp. angustissima Giant Hopbush
D. viscosa subsp. cuneata Cut leaf Hopbush
Eremophila desertii Turkey Bush
Hakea leucoptera Silver Needlewood
H. tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Jasminum lineare DesertJasmine
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Myoporum montanum Waterbush
Pittosporum angustiflolium Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Sweet Quandong
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Bunch Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Austrostipa bigenculata Yanganbil
A. densiflora Fox tail Spearrgrass
A. elegantissima Feather Speargrass
A. scable subsp. falcata Rough Spear Grass
Bulbine bulbinosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common everlasting
C. semipapposum Clustered Eerlasting
Einadia nutans  Climbing Saltbush
Juncus usitatus Ccommon Rush
Lomandra effusa  Scented Mattrush
L. leucocephala Wolly Mattrush
L. multiflora Many flowered Matrush
Rytidosperma erianthum Wallaby Grass
R. setaceae Small flowered Wallaby Grass
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
X. viscosum Sticky Everlasting