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:

Tuppal

Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains Plains Lunettes and Sand Ridges
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 Horseshoe Lagoon near Lower River Rd, Arrawatta Travelling Stock Reserve, Tuppal Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia pendula Boree
Acacia pycnantha Golden Wattle
Acacia salicina Cooba
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Duma florulenta Lignum
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Cassinia sifton Dolly Bush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Maireana aphylla Cottonbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Lipocarpha microcephala Button Rush
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Maireana pentagona Slender Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida

 

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 Millewa State Forest, Wait-A-While Travelling Stock Reserve, Mains Travelling Stock Reserve, Tocumwal 3-Mile Travelling Stock Reserve.
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata Spoon leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Duma florulenta Lignum
Myoporum montanum Western Boobialla
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia Fine leaf Desert Cassia
Senna artemisioides 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 Alternanthera denticulata s.s. 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
Cotula australis Common Cotula
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Lipocarpha microcephala Button Rush
Ptilotus spathulatus Pussy tails
Pycnosorus globosus Drumsticks
Rhodanthe corymbiflora Grey Sunray
Sida corrugata Corrugated Sida
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Lunettes and Sand Ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes).
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey.
Aeolian: well drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Millewa State Forest.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Banksia marginata Honeysuckle
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Callitris gracilis Murray Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia salicina Cooba
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
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
LOW SHRUBS <2m
 Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge leaf Hopbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Ajuga australis Australian Bugle
Aristida behriana Brush Wiregrass
Aristida jerichoensis No. 9 Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Chrysocephalum apiculatum s.s. Yellow Buttons
Clematis microphylla Small-leaved Clematis
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enneapogon nigricans Pappus Grass
Enteropogon acicularis Curly Windmill Grass
Eragrostis lacunaria Purple Lovegrass
Homopholis proluta Rigid Panic
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush