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:

Tooma

Creeks & low country Lower slopes Hill country
LANDFORM Creeks & low country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Light alluvial soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tooma Creek at Tooma
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea-tree
+ L. continentale Prickly Tea-tree
L. obovatum River Tea-tree
Lomatia myricoides River Lomatia

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Granite & gneissic granite.

Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Back Tooma – Tumbarumba road
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Grevillea
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE

Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest (N-NW aspect).

Broad-leaved Peppermint forest (SE aspect).Robertson’s Peppermint, Candlebark, & Long-leaf Box forest (upper reaches).
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mainly granite & gneissic granite (Maragle Mt).

Also quartzite (Mt Garland). Mainly sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Maragle Mountain
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/ Lightwood
A. kettlewelliae Buffalo Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bicostata Eurabbie
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dalrympleana Mountain Grey Gum
* E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
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
 Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

* mainly S-SE aspects

+ mainly N-NW aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. siculiformis Dagger Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Correa reflexa var. reflexa Common Correa
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Grevillea
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
L. grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree

+  soaks/poorly  drained  sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra
 Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp.
 Grass Tree