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:

Gocup

River & flats Low to mid slopes Higher slopes
LANDFORM River & flats
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium. Alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tumut River
TREES >8M # Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Casuarina cunninghamiana River Sheoak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Phragmites australis Common Reed
# Typha spp. Cumbungi

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Low to mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone & siltstone. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Halfway Hill/Gocup area
TREES >8M + A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ lower areas
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia ulicifolia Prickly Moses
Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea-tree
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
P. procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass tree
LANDFORM Higher slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Basalt. Lithosols (earthy loams) & red podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Minjary Mountain
TREES >8M A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia ulicifolia Prickly Moses
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
GROUND COVERS Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Cheilanthes spp Rock Fern
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily