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:

Jingellic

Lower country Hill country below approx. 500 m elevation Hills above approx. 500 m elevation
LANDFORM Lower country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland (Murray River)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay.
Light alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Jingellic village
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet

+ major creeks & rivers
GROUND COVERS + Carex spp. Sedge
+ Cyperus lucidus Sedge
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creeks/soaks

 

LANDFORM Hill country below approx. 500 m elevation
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyll forest – Red Stringybark & Red Box
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Around Carboona road intersection
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
* Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
* E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
* mainly south of Carboona road intersection, along creeks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
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
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
GROUND COVERS + Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
* Astroloma humifusum Native Cranberry
Arthropodium spp. Vanilla Lily
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
+ Blechnum spp. Water Fern
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/Sarsaparilla
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Hovea heterophylla Common Hovea
Rytidosperma pallidum Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
* Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pimelea linifolia Slender Rice-flower
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Spyridium parvifolium Dusty Miller
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ mainly creeks

* mainly quartzite (not granite)
LANDFORM Hills above approx. 500 m elevation
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyll forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss.
Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Black Ridge
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bicostata Eurabbie
+ E. camphora Mountian Swamp Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
*E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. viminalis Manna Gum

*mainly north aspect

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
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
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
GROUND COVERS + Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
* Astroloma humifusum Native Cranberry
Arthropodium spp. Vanilla Lily
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
+ Blechnum spp. Water Fern
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/Sarsaparilla
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Hovea heterophylla Common Hovea
Rytidosperma pallidum Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
* Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pimelea linifolia Slender Rice-flower
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Spyridium parvifolium Dusty Miller
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ mainly creeks

* mainly quartzite (not granite)