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:

Yarra Yarra

Rocky outcrop, hill & mid-slope country Flats & low country Hill country
LANDFORM Rocky outcrop, hill & mid-slope country
VEGETATION TYPE

Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Box & Red Stringybark.

Also Red Gum forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss.

Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Morgan’s Ridge – western edge of catchment
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. dorataxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
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
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS

 Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
H. sericea Silky Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Flats & low country
VEGETATION TYPE

Blakley’s Red Gum

& Yellow Box woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay.

Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Yarra Yarra Junction
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
+ creeks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
# A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree

# not noted in area
but suggested for replanting

+ poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + 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/poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Box & Red Stringybark
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phylite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
Shallow red & yellow loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Eastern edge of catchment
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
# A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
# E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
# E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
# Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart
# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Golden Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phylicoides Parrot-pea
Grevillea polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea parvifolia Violet Kunzea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS

 Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
H. sericea Silky Guinea-flower
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting