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:

Lower Kyeamba & Main

River & flood plain Lower slopes Mid & upper slopes
LANDFORM River & flood plain
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel Alluvial soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee River
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. leucoclada Northern Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Casuarina cunninghamiana River Sheoak
Eucalyptus 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 Phragmites australis Common Reed

 

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schists. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Sturt Highway/Alfredtown
TREES >8M Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
# A. genistifolia Spreading / Early Wattle
# A. pycnantha Golden Wattle

# not noted in area but

suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS + Juncus spp. Rush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Mid & upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schists. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Ladysmith/Borambola area
TREES >8M * Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
+ A. implexa Hickory Wattle
* Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping
Brachychiton populneus Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Cypress Pine
E. blakelyi White Box Blakely’s
E. melliodora Red Gum Yellow
+ E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Mugga Ironbark

* higher slopes only

+ sighted only in Lower Kyeamba
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish Wattle
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell