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

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Level to Depressed Plains Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests
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 Southern end of Prungle Mail Rd.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Eremophila sturtii Turpentine
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana decalvans Black Cottonbush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
M. turbinata Satiny Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
S. intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Brachyscome lineariloba Hard head Daisy
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
D. paradoxus Cannon-ball
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Hyalosperma glutinosum Golden Sunray
Plantago drummondii Dark Sago weed
Pycnosorus chrysanthes Golden Billy-buttons
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Velleia paradoxa Spur Velleia

 

 

LANDFORM Undulating Plains, Low Rises and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Black / Pearl Bluebush Chenopod Shrubland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low shrubland to low open shrubland dominated by Pearl Bluebush and/or Black Bluebush.
Aeolian, deep calcareous sands and loams, red-brown duplex sandy soils with clay subsoil.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Eastern side of Pitarpunga Lake, eastern side of Macommon Lake.
TREES >8M Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia melvillei Myall
A. oswaldii Miljee
Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens Rosewood
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Atriplex lindleyi subsp. conduplicata Baldoo
A. leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. pseudocampanulata Mealy Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana appressa Grey Bluebush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
M. georgei Satiny Bluebush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
M. sedifolia Pearl Bluebush
Malacocera tricornis Soft-horns
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena divaricata Pale Poverty-bush
S. intricata Tangled Poverty-bush
S. muricata Five spined Bassia
S. tricuspis Streaked Poverty-bush
Tecticornia tenuis Slender Glasswort
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa elegantissima Feather Speargrass
A. nitida Balcarra Speargrass
A. nodosa Knotty Speargrass
A. scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Brachyscome lineariloba Hard head Daisy
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Calocephalus sonderi Pale Beauty-heads
Dysphania pumilio Small Crumbweed
Crassula colorata Dense Stonecrop
Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum Round-leaf Pigface
Dissocarpus biflorus var. biflorus Twin-horned Copperburr
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eragrostis dielsii Mulka
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lepidium monoplocoides Winged Peppercress
Minuria cunninghamii Bush Minuria
M. leptophylla Minnie Daisy
Panicum decompositum Native Millet
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
R. floribunda Common White Sunray
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach

 

LANDFORM Sandplains, Swales and Dune Crests
VEGETATION TYPE Mallee Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Tall shrubland to low woodland dominated by multi-stemmed mallee eucalypts.
Aeolian, sandy red loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Paika Lake Rd south east of Penarie, Kyalite – Balranald Rd, Balranald – Moulamein Rd, Hatfield Rd approx 10km north of Balranald to Penarie.
TREES >8M Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia colletioides Spine Bush
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle
A. halliana Manna Wattle
A. ligulata Sandhill Wattle
A. microcarpa Manna Wattle
A. oswaldii Miljee
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Bossiaea walkeri Cactus Pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila deserti Ellangowan Poison-bush
Eucalyptus dumosa Congoo Mallee
E. gracilis Yorrell
E. oleosa Red Mallee
E. socialis Pointed Mallee
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum murrayanum Bitter Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
S. a. subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
S. a. subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
Templetonia egena Desert Broombush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Acacia sclerophylla Hard-leaf Wattle
Atriplex acutibractea subsp. acutibractea Pointed Saltbush
A. eardleyae Small Saltbush
A. lindleyi Eastern Flat-top Saltbush
A. stipitata Bitter Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Beyeria opaca Smooth Wallaby bush
Chenopodium curvispicatum Cottony Saltbush
C. desertorum Desert Goosefoot
Daviesia arenaria Sandhill Bitter-pea
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eremophila glabra Tar Bush
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush-pea
Grevillea huegelii Comb-spider Grevillea
Maireana brevifolia Yanga Bush
M. erioclada Rosy Bluebush
M. georgei Satiny Bluebush
M. pentatropis Erect Mallee Bluebush
M. pyramidata Black Bluebush
M. radiata Grey Bluebush
M. sedifolia Pearl Bluebush
M. triptera Three winged Bluebush
Nitraria billardierei Dillon Bush
Olearia pimeleoides Showy Daisy-bush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis Goathead Burr
S. diacantha Grey Copperburr
S. obliquicuspis Limestone Copperburr
Westringia rigida Stiff Western Rosemary
Zygophyllum eremaeum Climbing Twinleaf
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma setacea Small flowered Wallaby Grass
Austrostipa elegantissima Feather Speargrass
A. nitida Balcarra Speargrass
Brachyscome lineariloba Hard head Daisy
Calandrinia eremaea Small Purslane
Calotis hispidula Bogan Flea
Dissocarpus paradoxus Cannon-ball
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Erodium crinitum Blue Crowfoot
Goodenia willisiana Sandhill Goodenia
Helichrysum leucopsideum Satin Everlasting
Isoetopsis graminifolia Grass Cushion
Lepidium leptopetalum Shrubby Peppercress
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush
Maireana sclerolaenoides Woolly fruit Copperburr
Marsdenia australis Doubah
Omphalolappula concava Burr Stickseed
Podolepis jaceoides Showy Copper wire Daisy
Ptilotus nobilis Regal Foxtail
P. seminudus Rabbit tails
P. spathulatus Pussy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
R. stuartiana Clay Sunray
Senecio glossanthus Slender Groundsel
Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach
Triodia scariosa Porcupine Grass
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell
Roepera apiculata Gall Weed
R. aurantiaca subsp. aurantiaca Shrubby Twinleaf
R. glauca Pale Twinleaf
Zygophyllum iodocarpum Violet Twinleaf