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:

Umbango

Creeklines and flats Mid slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creeklines and flats
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Umbango Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensi River Red Gum
+ creeklines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Early/ Spreading Wattle
# A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting (but not in creekline)
GROUND COVERS #+ Carex spp. Sedge
#+ Juncus spp. Rush
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creeks/drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schists. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Humula area
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillate Drooping Sheoak
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. nortonii  Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
E. sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia spp. Cassinia
# Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phylicoides Small-leaf Parrot-pea
Leptospermum obovatum River Tea-tree
Platylobium  formosum Handsome  Flat-Pea
Pomaderris phylicifolia var. phylicifolia Pomaderris
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS #+ Carex spp. Sedge
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
#+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed

+ drainage lines/damp areas

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland/forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schists. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Downfall area
TREES >8M

Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood

Eucalyptus camphora

Mountain Swamp Gum

E. dives

Broad-leaved Peppermint

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. mannifera

Brittle Gum

E. melliodora

Yellow Box

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

E. robertsonii

Robertson’s  Peppermint

E. rossii

Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum

E. viminalis

Manna Gum

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla

Hairy Bursaria

Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata

Common Cassinia

C. longifolia

Shiny Cassinia

Daviesia latifolia

Hop Bitter-pea

Dillwynia phylicoides species complex

Small-leaf Parrot-pea

+ Leptospermum continentale

Prickly Tea-tree

* L. obovatum

River Tea-tree

Platylobium formosum

Handsome Flat-pea

Pomaderris phylicifolia  var. phylicifolia

Pomaderris

Pultenaea foliolosa

Bush-pea

+ soaks/poorly drained  sites

*creeklines
GROUND COVERS

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Hardenbergia violacea

Purple Coral Pea

Lomandra spp.

Mat-rush

Melichrus urceolatus

Urn Heath

+ Phragmites australis

Common Reed

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

+ Typha spp.

Cumbungi

+ drainage lines/damp areas