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 Tumut (Bombowlee Creek to Kangaroo Mountain)

Floodplains Low to Mid Slopes Upper Slopes
LANDFORM Floodplains
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS ???
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tumut River
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
+Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Casuarina cunninghamiana
 River Sheoak
+#Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+#E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
+#E. melliodora Yellow Box

+drier areas of floodplain

#not noted in area but suggested for re-planting 
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m #Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
#Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea Tree

#not noted in area but suggested for re-planting 
GROUND COVERS #Phragmites australis Common Reed/Native Bamboo
Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
#Lomandra Mat Rush

#not noted in area but suggested for re-planting 

 

LANDFORM Low to Mid Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS ???
LOCATION EXAMPLE Yass Shire Road / Kurrajong TSR / Kangaroo Mountain
TREES >8M Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
+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
+higher areas
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop Bush

#not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS Ammobium alatum (T)Yass Daisy
Rytidosperma sp. Wallaby Grass
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Dillwynia phyllicoides Small-leafed Parrot Pea
Eryngium rostratum Blue Devil
Hibbertia pendunculata Guinea Flower
Lomandra sp. Mat Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
#Senecio hispidulus
 Hill Fireweed
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Tricoryne elatiorx Yellow Rush Lily

#not noted in area but suggested for replanting

 

LANDFORM Upper Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland/Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS ???
LOCATION EXAMPLE Billapalloola Rd / Bucclcuch State Forest
TREES >8M Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. nortonii Long leaf Box
E. pauciflora Snow Gum/White Sallee
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. viminalis
Manna Gum
Exocarpus cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata Common Cassinia/Dog bush
C. longifolia
 Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitterpea
GROUND COVERS Brachyscome sp. Daisy
Poa sieberiana Snow Grass
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Pteridium esculentum Bracken Fern
Clematis aristata Old Mans Beard
Senecio hispidulus Hill Fireweed
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax Lily
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Stylidium graminifolium Trigger plant
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Gompholobium huegelii Pale Wedge Pea
Viola hederacea Ivy Leaf Violet
Hardenbergia violacea Native Sarsaparilla
Wahlenbergia sp. Native Bluebells
Hibbertia obtusifolia Hoary Guinea Flower
Hydrocotyle laxiflora Stinking Pennywort
Lomandra sp. Mat Rush
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat Pea
Ranunculus sp. Buttercup