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:

Simmons Creek & North-west Culcairn

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Flats & lower country Undulating country & hills
LANDFORM Flats & lower country
VEGETATION TYPE Mainly Grey Box woodland. Also White Box woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Grey & brown clayey soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Billabong Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. microcarpa Grey Box
+ Billabong Creek
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Hakea leucoptera Silver Needlewood

+ Billabong Creek
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Sclerolaena muricata var. semiglabra Black Roly Poly
# Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting

 

LANDFORM Undulating country & hills
VEGETATION TYPE Box – Cypress Pine woodland (White Box & Yellow Box) & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly residual colluvial deposits from underlying granites & meta-sediments. Red & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mullemblah Hill
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
A. falciformis Mountain Hickory
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. macrocarpa Grey Box
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush/Weeping Pittosporum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. Cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
+ Carex appressa Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Daviesia genistifolia Broom Bitter-pea
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Einadia nutans  Climbing Saltbush
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
# Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Thysanotus spp. Fringe Lily

+ poorly drained sites

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting