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:

Urangeline

Creeklines and Plains Low Hills
LANDFORM Creeklines and Plains
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Unconsolidated riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel
Red-brown earths & grey and brown clays
LOCATION EXAMPLE Urangeline Creek & Urangeline East
TREES >8M Acacia pendula Boree/Myall
* Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
+ creekline only
* slight rises
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. hakeoides Hakea/Western Black Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Eremophila longifolia Long-leaf Emu-bush
Hakea leucoptera Silver Needlewood
Duma florulenta Lignum
Senna artemisioides Silver Cassia
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Poa spp. Tussock Grass

 

LANDFORM Low Hills
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box/White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits derived from underlying meta-sediments.
Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Pleasant Hills & Urangeline areas
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
Acacia pendula Boree / Myall
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
A. verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
* Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
Pittosporum augustifolium Butterbush
* Eastern extremities of catchment
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. hakeoides Western Black Wattle/Hakea Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
* A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia sifton Dolly Bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Eremophila longifolia Long-leaf Emu-bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides Silver Cassia

* Eastern extremities of catchment
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Helichrysum spp. Everlasting Daisy
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass