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:

Lower Gilmore & Sandy

Lower slopes & valleys Mid to upper slopes
LANDFORM Lower slopes & valleys
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle bathylith & riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay and gravel Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Gilmore Creek area
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
+ creeklines/watercourses
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia ulicifolia Prickly Moses
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Kunzea parvifolia Violet Kunzea
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
P. procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ creeklines/watercourses

 

LANDFORM Mid to upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite, reddish shale, siltstone & Maragle bathylith Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tumut State Forest & Gilmore Valley ridges
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
A. falciformis Mountain Hickory
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
* E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
* E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. polyanthemos Red Box
* E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
E. sideroxylon Mugga/Red Ironbark
* E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpus cupressiformis Native Cherry
* higher, moister areas
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. leprosa Cinnamon Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Correa reflexa Common Correa
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phyllicoides Small-leaf Parrot-pea
Grevillea lanigera Woolly Grevillea
G. ramosissima Fan Grevillea
Gynatrix pulchella Hemp-bush
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick / Leafless Indigo
I. australis Austral Indigo
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Cheiranthera cyanea Finger Flower
Clematis aristata Old Man’s Beard
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Gompholobium heugelii Pale Wedge Pea
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Hovea heterophylla Common Hovea
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Pimelea linifolia Slender Rice-flower
Spyridium parvifolium Dusty Miller
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Tetratheca ciliata Pink Bells/Pink Eye