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:

Thugga & Culcairn East

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Flats & lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box woodlands & Grey Box woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – gravel, sand, silt & clay. Grey and brown clays/hard setting yellow soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Olympic Highway vicinity
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. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ Billabong Creek
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush

+ Billabong Creek

* Western area of district
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping/Berry Saltbush
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
D. longifolia Smooth Flax-lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
+ Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
* Phragmites australis Common Reed
+ Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
* Typha spp. Cumbungi

* Creeks/soaks

+ Mainly along creek banks

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels, schist & porphyry. Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Hills in ‘Boorook’ vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia 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. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
* Mainly S-SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Watle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
D. viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Dillwynia phylicoides spp. complex Small-leaf Parrot-pea
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lissanthe strigosa Peach-heath
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pimelea spp.  Rice-flower
Themeda triandra  Kangaroo Grass