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:

Sawyers, Forest, Four Post and Little Billabong

Flats & lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Alluvial soils & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Country surrounding creeklines e.g. Little Billabong.
TREES >8M + Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
+ A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
+ creeks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks & poorly drained sites

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS + Amphibromus neesii Swamp Swamp Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Gras
Dillwyinia sericea Parrot Pea
Juncus spp. Rush
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Sporobolus creber Rat’s Tail Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
+ creeks/soaks/ poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box & Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mostly quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Also granite, gneissic granite & gneiss.

Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Hume Highway in SE corner of region
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
* E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
+ E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+# E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart

 * Mainly N & NW aspect

+ Mainly S & SE aspect

# not on granite
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. sifton Dolly Bush
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phylicoides spp. complex Parrot Pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-Bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Leptospermum multicaule Silver Tea-tree
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Aristida ramosa Purple Wiregrass
Austrostipa spp.
  Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachycoma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia
 Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome Austrostipa
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath Brachyloma
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Wallaby Grass Hardenbergia
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree