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:

Oberne - Tarcutta

Creekline & flats Mid slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creekline & flats
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tarcutta & Umbango Creek junction ‘Coolangatta’
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

+ E. camaldulensis

River Red Gum

+ creekline only
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

# Acacia genistifolia

Spreading/Early 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

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum/Yellow box woodland (lower) & Red Stringybark woodland (higher)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tarcutta South & Oberne area
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. implexa

Hickory  Wattle/Lightwood

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

* E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E.macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. melliodora

Yellow Box

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

E. sideroxylon

Red/Mugga Ironbark

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia genistifolia

Spreading/Early Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla

Hairy Bursaria

Cassinia sifton

Dolly Bush

Daviesia leptophylla

Slender Bitter-pea

+ Leptospermum continentale

Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS

Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily

Dianella revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

Anthrosachne scaber

Common Wheat-grass

Glycine clandestina

Twining Glycine

Lomandra multiflora

Many-flowered Mat-rush

+ Phragmites australis

Common Reed

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

Wahlenbergia stricta

Tall Bluebell

+ drainage lines/damp areas

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark to montane woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite & gneissic granite. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Westbrook area
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

A. melanoxylon

Blackwood

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

E. robertsonii

Robertson’s Peppermint

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

E. dives

Broad-leaved Peppermint

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

E. rubida

Candlebark

E. sideroxylon

Red/Mugga Ironbark

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla

Hairy Bursaria

Daviesia latifolia

Hop Bitter-pea

Leptospermum obovatum

River Tea-tree

Pultenaea foliolosa

Bush-pea

GROUND COVERS

Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily

Burchardia umbellate

Milkmaids

Arthropodium strictus

Chocolate Lily

Dillwynia sericea

Showy Parrot-pea

Glycine clandestine

Twining Glycine

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

Lomandra multiflora

Many-flowered Mat-rush

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass