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:

The Rock - Henty - Milbrulong Region

Low hills Flats & slight rises High rocky outcrop Low rises
LANDFORM Low hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Cypress Pine & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Red & red-brown earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Milbrulong State Forest
TREES >8M Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Bracteanta viscosa Sticky Everlasting
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Einadia nutans Climbing Saltbush
Pimelea spp. Rice-flower
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia

 

LANDFORM Flats & slight rises
VEGETATION TYPE Grey Box/Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Unconsolidated riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Grey and brown clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Grubben/Bullenbung area
TREES >8M Acacia pendula Myall
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. macrocarpa Grey Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
+ creeklines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. flexifolia Bent-leaf Wattle
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
Eremophila longifolia Berrigan
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush-pea
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Typha spp. Cumbungi
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

LANDFORM High rocky outcrop
VEGETATION TYPE Dwyer’s Red Gum & Black Cypress Pine woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite Lithosols (earthy soils)
LOCATION EXAMPLE The Rock Nature Reserve
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
A. verticillate Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. macrocarpa Grey Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. linearifolia Stringybark Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia laevis Cough Bush
Dillwynia juniperina Prickly Parrot-pea
Grevillea floribunda Seven Dwarfs Grevillea
Indigofera spp. Austral/Tick Indigo
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
P. largiflorens Twiggy Bush-pea
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
GROUND COVERS

Astroloma humifusum

Native Cranberry

Brachyloma daphnoides

Daphne Heath

Chrysocephalum apiculatum

Yellow Buttons

Cryptandra amara

Pretty Cryptandra

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Dianella revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

Dillwynia sericea

Showy Parrot-pea

Einadia nutans

Climbing Saltbush

Glycine canescens

Silky Glycine

Lissanthe strigose

Peach Heath

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

 

LANDFORM Low rises
VEGETATION TYPE White Box/Blakely’s Red Gum/Grey Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Unconsolidated deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel. Red podzolic (duplex soil).
LOCATION EXAMPLE East of The Rock & Burkes Creek
TREES >8M * Acacia dealbata  Silver Wattle
+ A. leucoclada  Northern Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla  White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens  White Box
Eucalyptus blakelyi  Blakely’s Red Gum
E.melliodora  Yellow Box
E. microcarpa  Grey Box

* Burkes Creek

+ north of Yerong Creek

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
* Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush-pea

*  Burkes Creek

GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wire Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheat-grass
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell