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:

Eringowarrah, Deltroit, Hillas, Jellingro & Oaky

River & flats Low to mid slopes Higher slopes
LANDFORM River & flats
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum/River Sheoak woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Alluvial loams & clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee River
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. leucoclada

Northern Silver Wattle

Casuarina cunninghamiana

River Sheoak

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

E. camaldulensis

River Red Gum

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

# Callistemon sieberi

River Bottlebrush

# Eremophila deserti

Turkey-bush

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

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 Low to mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite, reddish shale & siltstone. Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Granite. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (earthy loams).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mundarlo region
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

* E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

E. melliodora

Yellow Box

* E. polyanthemos

Red Box

mainly mid slopes
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia deanei

Deane’s Wattle

A. decora

Western Silver Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

# Kunzea parvifolia

Violet Kunzea

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS

# Austrostipa spp.

Spear Grass

# Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily

# Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

# Dianella revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

# Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Higher slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box & Red Box/Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone, quartzite, reddish shale & siltstone. Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Granite. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (earthy loams).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Upper Deltroit
TREES >8M

Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. dealbata

Tumbledown Gum

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

E. sideroxylon

Mugga/Red Ironbark

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia genistifolia

Spreading/Early Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

A. pycnantha

Golden Wattle

Indigofera australis

Austral Indigo

Pultenaea foliolosa

Bush-pea

GROUND COVERS

Xerochrysum viscosum

Sticky Everlasting

# Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Dillwynia sericea

Showy Parrot-pea

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

# Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting