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:

Rosewood Plateau

Creeklines and depressions Rolling hills
LANDFORM Creeklines and depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Mountain Swamp Gum forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
Light alluvial soils & sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mannus Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. stellulata Black Sallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Leptospermum grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree
+ L. continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Pomaderris eriocephala Pomaderris

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Typha spp. Cumbungi

 

LANDFORM Rolling hills
VEGETATION TYPE Moist open forest – Red Stringybark & Brittle Gum; Apple Box & Robertson’s Peppermint
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
Light alluvial soils & sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Rosewood vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. bicostata Eurabbie
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
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. stellulata Black Sallee
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. siculiformis Dagger Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Correa reflexa var. reflexa Common Correa
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Grevilllea
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
L. longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass