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:

Scent Bottle, Serpentine & Upper Yarra Yarra (Wantagong)

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Flats Lower slopes Hills – N & NW aspect Hills – S & SE aspect
LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Alluvium – sand, silt, clay & gravel.

Sandy alluviums.
LOCATION EXAMPLE ‘Narrawa’ vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m + Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

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

+ creeks/soaks

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE

Box woodland

– Yellow Box & Red Box
GEOLOGY & SOILS

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

Sandy yellow earths & sandy granite earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE ‘Fordell’ vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakley’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea

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

+ creeks/soaks

 

LANDFORM Hills – N & NW aspect
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box & Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS

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

Sandy yellow earths & sandy granite earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Woomargama State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Indigofera adesmiifolia  Tick Indigo
I. australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
P. procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
* Bracteantha spp. Everlasting
* Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
* Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
* Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
* Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
* Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
* Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
* Xanthorrhoea spp.
 Grass Tree

* mainly N & NW aspect

 

LANDFORM Hills – S & SE aspect
VEGETATION TYPE Moist open forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS

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

Sandy yellow earths & sandy granite earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Woomargama State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
+ Eucalyptus camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
+ creeks/soaks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
* Bracteantha spp. Everlasting
* Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
* Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
* Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
* Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
* Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
* Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
* Xanthorrhoea spp.
 Grass Tree

* mainly N & NW aspect