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:

Coppabella

Creeks and depressions Hills
LANDFORM Creeks and depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Forest – eg. Mountain Swamp Gum
GEOLOGY & SOILS

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

Sandy yellow earths (creeklines) shallow red & yellow earths (hills).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Coppabella Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. viminalis Manna Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
+ Blechnum spp. Water Fern
+ Carex appressa Sedge
+ Cyperus lucidus Sedge Rush
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
+ Typha spp.
 Cumbungi

+ creeks & soaks

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Stringybark with Long-leaf Box & Silver Bundy; Robertson’s Peppermint with Candlebark.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

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

Sandy yellow earths (creeklines) shallow red & yellow earths (hills).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Munderoo State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. bicostata Eurabbie
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. melliodora Yellow box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei subsp. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga Green Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. ulicifolia Prickly Moses
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
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 species complex Small-leaf Parrot-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
P. procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

+ poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium spp. Vanilla Lily
Astroloma humifusum Native Cranberry
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Carex spp. Sedge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Chrysocephalum spp. Daisy
Clematis aristata Old Man’s Beard
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Gompholobium huegelii Pale Wedge-pea
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia spp. Guinea-flower
Hovea heterophylla Common Hovea
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia Slender Rice-flower
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass