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:

Maragle

Lower country Hills below about 500 m elevation Hills above about 500 m elevation
LANDFORM Lower country
VEGETATION TYPE Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mainly granite & gneissic granite.

Light alluvial soils.
TREES >8M * Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
* A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
* E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
* key species for creeks/drainage lines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m * Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
* Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
* Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
* Leptospermum grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree

* key species for creeks/drainage lines
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
* Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
* Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
* Phragmites australis ???

* key species for creeks/drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Hills below about 500 m elevation
VEGETATION TYPE

Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland,

Broad-leaved Peppermint (S aspect) & Red Stringybark forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mainly granite & gneissic granite.

Also basalt (western edge of catchment).

Mainly sandy granite soils.
TREES >8M * Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
+ A. implexa – Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
*+ A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Brachychiton populneus  Kurrajong
#+ Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
* E. bridgesiana Apple Box
~ E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
+ E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
#+ E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
# E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

* key species for creeks/
drainage lines

+ species oberved on
basalt country

# mainly N-NW aspects

~ mainly S-SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
*+ Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
* Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Correa reflexa var. reflexa Common Correa
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Grevillea
* Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
I. australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
# Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
* L. grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

* key species for creeks/drainage lines

+ species observed on basalt
(although also on granite & quartz)

# soaks/67poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
* Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
* Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australis Storksbill
* Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell
+ Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree

* key species for creeks/drainage lines

+ species mainly observed on basalt country
(although also on granite & quartz)
LANDFORM Hills above about 500 m elevation
VEGETATION TYPE Sclerophyll forest –
Robertson’s Peppermint, Candlebark & Long-leaf box.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist (eg.
China Walls area). Also granite & gneissic granite (Clarkes Hill).
Sandy granite soils.
TREES >8M * Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
* 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

* Key species for creeks/
drainage lines

# mainly N-NW aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
*+ Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
* Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Correa reflexa var. reflexa Common Correa
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Rosemary Grevillea
* Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
I. australis Austral Indigo
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
# Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
* L. grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

* key species for creeks/drainage lines

+ species observed on basalt
(although also on granite & quartz)

# soaks/67poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS + Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
* Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
* Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australis Storksbill
* Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell
+ Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree

* key species for creeks/drainage lines

+ species mainly observed on basalt country
(although also on granite & quartz)