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:

Gap Creek

River, Creeklines and Low country Plains / grasslands Low hills and mid slopes
LANDFORM River, Creeklines and Low country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay silt, sand & gravel.
Brown & Grey Alluvial Soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE MurrumbidgeeRiver Flood Plain – Euberta
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Casuarina cunninghamiana River She Oak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m ??? ???
GROUND COVERS ??? ???

 

LANDFORM Plains / grasslands
VEGETATION TYPE Grey & Yellow Box/White Cypress Pine Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite & colluvial deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel
Red & Red Brown Earth Soils
Red/Brown Siliceous Sands
LOCATION EXAMPLE Warren Church & Tooyal School Roads
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Golden Wattle
A. diformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
Einadia nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eremophila longifolia Long leaf- Emu Bush
Senna artemisioides Silver Cassia/Punty Bush
GROUND COVERS Aristida ramosa Three Awn Spear Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Austrostypa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax Lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat
Poa sp. Tussock Grass

 

LANDFORM Low hills and mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Tumbledown Gum, White Box & White Cypress Pine Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite & Sedimentary rocks -Shale, Quartzite & Siltstone
Shallow skeletal gravelly loam & Red Podsolic Soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Malebo Range
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia aspera Rough Wattle
A. deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot Pea
Pittosporum angustifolium Butter Bush
Santalum lanceolatum Sandalwood
GROUND COVERS Aristida ramosa Three Awn Spear Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grasses
Austrostypa spp. Spear Grasses
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Lomandra multiflora Many Flowered Mat-rush
Poa sp. Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue Lily