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:

Savernake

Plains Shallow Depressions Level to Depressed Plains
LANDFORM Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Open grassy woodland with Grey Box and Buloke.
Alluvial, variety of soils – clays, loams, sands and silts.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Savernake area, Fergusons Tank Travelling Stock Reserve, Wangamong Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. brachybotrya Grey Wattle
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata Spoon leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
S. a. subsp. zygophylla Narrow leaf Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge leaf Hopbush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera denticulata Lesser Joyweed
Arthropodium minus Small Vanilla-lily
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Leptorhynchos elongatus Lanky Buttons
L. panaetioides Woolly Buttons
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida

 

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 Native Dog Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. microcarpa Grey 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
A. 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
E. pallens Pale Spike-rush
E. plana Ribbed Spike-rush
Eragrostis australasica Canegrass
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Juncus aridicola Tussock Rush
J. flavidus Yellow Rush
J. radula Hoary Rush
Limosella australis Australian Mudwort
Maireana ciliata Hairy Fissure weed
M. enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Sclerolaena brachyptera Short-winged Copperburr
Senecio cunninghamii Bushy Groundsel
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
S. fibulifera Pin Sida
Solanum esuriale Quena
Typha domingensis Cumbungi
T. orientalis Cumbungi
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

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 Daysdale area.
SHRUBS  & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia oswaldii Miljee
A. pendula Boree
A. salicina Cooba
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
LOW SHRUBS <2m Atriplex leptocarpa Slender-fruited Saltbush
A. vesicaria Bladder Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
M. decalvans Black Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
Sclerolaena muricata Five spined Bassia
S. stelligera Star Copperburr
GROUND COVERS
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
R. setacea Small flowered Wallaby Grass
Austrostipa nodosa Knotty Speargrass
A. scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Calotis hispidula Bogan Flea
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Cotula australis Common Cotula
Crassula colorata Dense Stonecrop
C. decumbens var. decumbens Spreading Crassula
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Myriocephalus rhizocephalus Woolly-heads
Plantago turrifera Small Sago weed
Ptilotus erubescens Hairy tails
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Rumex tenax Dock
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Swainsona murrayana Slender Darling Pea
Triptilodiscus pygmaeus Common Sunray
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed
Wahlenbergia gracilis Australian Bluebell
Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica Early Nancy