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:

Mullengandra

Flats & lower slopes Hill country
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay along Mullengandra Creek. Mainly quartzite, slate & some granite/gneiss. Red and yellow earths/light alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Hume Highway, through most of catchment
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
+ mainly creeks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ poorly drained sites/soaks
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex appressa Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ Creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites

 

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LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box & White Box woodland, Blakely’s Red Gum woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mainly quartzite & slate. Also granite/gneiss.

Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Upper reaches of Sweetwater Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood Drooping
Allocasuarina verticillata Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart
* Mainly S & SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Dillwynia phyllicoides spp. complex Small-leaf Parrot-pea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
 Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea

+ soaks
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Xerochrysum bracteatum  Golden Everlasting
B. viscosa Sticky Everlasting
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Chrysocephalum spp. Everlasting
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella spp. Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Geranium spp.
 Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Leucopogon virgatus Common Beard-heath
Lomandra spp Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
Pimelea spp. Rice-flower
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca  Nodding Blue-lily
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree