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:

Paddy’s River - Burra Valley

Note – there appears to be little difference between the vegetation on granite & basalt soils.
Rivers, creeklines and depressions Rolling hills
LANDFORM Rivers, creeklines and depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Mountain Swamp Gum forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also basalt. Light alluvial soils, sandy granite soils & red basalt soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Paddy’s River
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. stellulata Black Sallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea-tree
L. grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree
Lomatia myricoides River Lomatia
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
Blechnum spp. Water Fern
Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock grass
LANDFORM Rolling hills
VEGETATION TYPE

Open forest – Red Stringybark & Long-leaf box (N & NW aspect)

Tall wet forest – Robertson’s Peppermint, Candlebark & Mountain Grey Gum (S & SE aspect & higher elevations)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also basalt. Light alluvial soils, sandy granite soils & red basalt soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Bago State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. kettlewelliae Buffalo Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. bicostata Eurabbie
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
* E. dalrympleana Mountain Grey Gum
*  E. delegatensis Alpine Ash
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
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
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
*  Higher  mountain  elevations
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. siculiformis Dagger Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassina
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Greville
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
I. australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

+  soaks/poorly  drained  sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis scabiosifolia Rough Burr-daisy
Carex spp. Sedge
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Gompholobium huegelii Pale Wedge-pea
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Leucopogon virgatus Beard-heath
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Poa spp. Tussock grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Thysanotus tuberosus Fringe-lily
Wahlenbergia communis Bluebell