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:

Four Mile

Flats Lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay.

Sandy alluvials.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Lower reaches of Four Mile Creek
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
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
# * Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

* particularly creekbanks

GROUND COVERS + Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creeks/soaks/drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.

Red & yellow earths.

LOCATION EXAMPLE ‘Yammacoona’ vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Grevillea floribunda Seven Dwarfs Grevillea
# Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree (soaks)
# Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
Xanthorrhoea spp.
Grass Tree

+ creeks/soaks/drainage lines

 

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

Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.

Red & yellow earths.

LOCATION EXAMPLE ‘Manoora’ vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. 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. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
# E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
* E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
# E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap
Exocarpos cupressiformis
Native Cherry

* upper reaches

+ mainly S & SE aspects

# mainly N & NW aspect

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Golden Wattle
A. gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia Indigo
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea Kunzea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dillwyina phylicoides spp. complex Parrot-pea
Grevillea polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Indigofera australis Austral
Kunzea parvifolia Violet
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Heath Bracteantha spp. Everlasting Daisy
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
H. sericea Silky Guinea-flower
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily