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:

Penarie

Rivers, Floodplains and Levees Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Sandplains and Low Rises
LANDFORM Rivers, Floodplains and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Riverine Forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs.
Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Kyalite State Forest, Balranald Weir, Murrumbidgee River frontage.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia salicina Cooba
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Asperula gemella Twin-leaf Bedstraw
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Rytidosperma duttoniana Brown back Wallaby Grass
Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Carex tereticaulis Rush Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Cotula australis Common Cotula
Crinum flaccidum Darling Lily
Cynodon dactylon Couch Grass
Cyperus exaltatus Giant Sedge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Eleocharis pusilla Small Spike-rush
Glinus lotoides Hairy Carpet-weed
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Ranunculus pumilio Ferny Buttercup
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Vallisneria australis. Eel-weed
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

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 River floodplain, depressions on the Balranald – Moulamein Rd north of Kyalite Rd, Sturt Highway between Yanga Creek and Waugorah Rd.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila debilis Winter Apple
Eremophila divaricata Spreading Emubush
Eremophila maculata Spotted Fuchsia
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Solanum esuriale Quena
Roepera glauca Pale Twinleaf

 

LANDFORM Sandplains and Low Rises
VEGETATION TYPE Belah – Rosewood Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to low open woodland dominated by Belah and Rosewood, with and open shrubby understorey on sandplains and lunettes.
Alluvial or aeolian, red or brown calcareous loams or loamy sands.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Formerly west of Balranald and south of the river, only known example is north of Weimby.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina pauper Belah
Geijera parviflora Wilga
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia colletioides Spine Bush
Acacia melvillei Myall
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia rigens Needle Wattle
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
Templetonia egena Desert Broombush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata Baldoo
Atriplex eardleyae Small Saltbush
Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
Atriplex vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Chenopodium curvispicatum Cottony Saltbush
Chenopodium desertorum Desert Goosefoot
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila glabra Tar Bush
Lycium australe Australian Boxthorn
Maireana appressa Grey Bluebush
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
Maireana pentatropis Erect Mallee Bluebush
Maireana pyramidata Black Bluebush
Maireana radiata Grey Bluebush
Maireana triptera Three winged Bluebush
Maireana turbinata Satiny Bluebush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Olearia magniflora Splendid Daisy-bush
Olearia muelleri Mueller Daisy-bush
Olearia pimeleoides Showy Daisy-bush
Osteocarpum acropterum var. deminutum Water Weed
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Scleroblitum atriplicinum Purple Goosefoot
Sclerolaena diacantha Grey Copperburr
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
Sclerolaena obliquicuspis Limestone Copperburr
Sclerolaena tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Zygophyllum eremaeum Climbing Twinleaf
GROUND COVERS Actinobole uliginosum Flannel Cudweed
Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa elegantissima Feather Speargrass
Austrostipa nitida Balcarra Speargrass
Austrostipa nodosa Knotty Speargrass
Brachyscome lineariloba Hard head Daisy
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Calotis hispidula Bogan Flea
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Geococcus pusillus Earth Cress
Goodenia pinnatifida Scrambled Eggs
Goodenia pusilliflora Small-flowered Goodenia
Leucochrysum molle Hoary Sunray
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
Maireana sclerolaenoides Woolly fruit Copperburr
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
Omphalolappula concava Burr Stickseed
Ptilotus spathulatus Pussy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Rhodanthe floribunda Common White Sunray
Rhodanthe polygalifolia Brilliant Sunray
Rhodanthe stuartiana Clay Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Vittadinia condyloides Club hair New Holland Daisy
Zygophyllum ammophilum Sand Twinleaf
Roepera apiculata Gall Weed
Roepera aurantiaca subsp aurantiaca Shrubby Twinleaf
Zygophyllum iodocarpum Violet Twinleaf