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

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