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:

Greenhills & Upper Tarcutta

Creekline Mid to upper slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creekline
VEGETATION TYPE Swamp Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle Bathylith. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tarcutta Creek (upper reaches)
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. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
+ drainage lines/soaks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
+  Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree
+ L. obovatum River Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

+  damp / poorly drained sites
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 Mid to upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle Bathylith. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Lower Bago
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Pomaderris phylicifolia var.phylicifolia Pomaderris
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Poa sieberiana Snow/Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle Bathylith. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Courabyra
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
+ Eucalyptus camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. stellulata Black Sallee
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

+  damp areas/drainage lines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. ulicifolia Gorse Bitter-pea
+ Epacris brevifolia Drumstick Heath
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
+ L. grandifolium Mountain Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
+ Prostanthera lasianthos Mint Bush

+ creeks & drainage lines
GROUND COVERS Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Poa sieberiana Snow / Tussock Grass
Tetratheca ciliata Pink Bells / Pink Eye
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass