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:

O’Briens North

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Upper to lower slopes Lower to upper slopes
LANDFORM Upper to lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mt. Flakney (east face)
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
* E. bridgesiana Apple Box
* E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
* E. sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
* lower reaches
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Cheiranthera cyanea Finger Flower
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lissanthe strigose Peach Heath
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pimelea linifolia Rice-flower
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily

 

LANDFORM Lower to upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box & Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Yellow solonetzic (drainage lines), red & yellow podzolic (duplex), & lithosols (siliceous loams).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Big Springs Road & O’Briens Creek Road
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
* Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
E. sideroxylon Mugga/Red Ironbark
* upper reaches
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
+ Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea

+ mid-upper reaches
GROUND COVERS Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
+Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
+Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines/damp areas