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:

Deadmans - Bungowannah - Long Flat

Flats/plain Lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Flats/plain
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Floodplain sediments – clay, silt, sand & gravel.

Alluviul loams and clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murray River
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
+ Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
+ Leptospermum obovatum River Tea-tree

+ along Murray River
GROUND COVERS Carex breviculmus Sedge
Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ soaks/creeks

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Box woodland – White Box on rises/upper slopes. Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland along drainage lines.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta- sediments. Red & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Bungowannah vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine spp. Glycine
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland & Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Shallow red & yellow loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE One Tree Hill
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids
Calotis cuneifolia Burr Daisy
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pimelea curviflora var. sericea Curved Rice-flower
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Themeda triandra
 Kangaroo Grass