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:

Buckargingah

Flats & lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest (shaley hills)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Cookarbine Hill
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
* mainly S-SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Dillwynia spp. Parrot-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
D. viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia Rice-flower
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass-tree