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:

Upper Sandy

Flats & lower slopes Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist Red podzolic (duplex) & non-calcic brown soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Sandy Creek/Mangoplah Road area
TREES >8M * Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
* E. polyanthemos Red Box
* rises
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wire Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
+ Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell

+ drainage lines/ damp areas

 

LANDFORM Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines
VEGETATION TYPE Tumbledown Gum/Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels, schist & granite. Red podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (siliceous sands).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Plum Pudding Hill/O’Brien’s Creek Road area
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
* Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. bridgesiana Apple Box
* E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Mugga/Red Ironbark

* Granite areas

+ drainage lines

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Stypandra glauca
Nodding Blue-lily
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
Wurmbea dioica Early Nancy

+ drainage lines/soaks