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:

Carabost

High hills Lower rolling hills Shaley ridge
LANDFORM High hills
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyll forest – mixed species
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist
LOCATION EXAMPLE SW of catchment: Carabost State Forest
TREES >8M + Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
+ A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bicostata Eurabbie
+ E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
+ E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
+ for revegetating drainage lines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. sifton Dolly Bush
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Grevillea polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/ Sarsaparilla
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Bramble
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ Soaks/drainage lines/poorly drained sites

LANDFORM Lower rolling hills
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum dry forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
LOCATION EXAMPLE ???
TREES >8M

+ Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

+ A. melanoxylon

Blackwood

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

+ E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

+ E. camphora

Mountain Swamp Gum

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

+ for revegetating drainage lines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. sifton Dolly Bush
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Grevillea polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/ Sarsaparilla
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Bramble
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ Soaks/drainage lines/poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Shaley ridge
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark/Scribbly Gum or Snap Gum forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Eastern edge of catchment
TREES >8M

+* Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. dealbata

Tumbledown Gum

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

E. rossii

Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart

+ for revegetating drainage lines

* particularly on lower easterly aspects

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. sifton Dolly Bush
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Grevillea polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
K. parvifolia Violet Kunzea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/ Sarsaparilla
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Bramble
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ Soaks/drainage lines/poorly drained sites