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:

Meadow Creek

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Creeks, Rivers and Low Country Mid Slopes Hillslopes and Ridges
LANDFORM Creeks, Rivers and Low Country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel
LOCATION EXAMPLE (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Casuarina cunninghamiana  River She-Oak
Eucalyptus bridgesiana  Apple Box
E. camaldulensis  River Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
A. melanoxylon Black Wood
Callistemon sieberi  River bottlebrush
Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree
L. obovatum River Tea Tree
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex inversa Inverted Sedge
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax Lily
D. revoluta var. revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush (Lomandra species)
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
R. setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass

 

LANDFORM Mid Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box – Blakely’s Red Gum – Long-leaved Box – Nortons Box – Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Shallow clay or loamy clay soils derived from fine grained sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous substrates
LOCATION EXAMPLE (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Peppermint Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Red Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. genistifolia Early Wattle
A. implexa Lightwood
A. paradoxa Hedge Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea Flower
H. riparia Tangled Guinea Flower
Leucopogon virgatus Common Bearded-heath
Lissanthe strigosa subsp. strigosa Peach Heath
GROUND COVERS Ammobium craspedioides Everlasting
Arthropodium minus Vanilla Lily
Arthropodium strictus Large-fruit Wedge-sedge
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Carex breviculmis Short-stem Sedge
Carex inversa Knob Sedge
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Blue Flax Lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
L. multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Poa sieberiana Grey Tussock
Pratia purpurascens Austral Bluebell
Pultenaea lapidosa Glandular Bush-pea
Rumex brownii Narrow-leaf Dock
Rytidosperma caespitosa Plains Wallaby Grass
Xanthorrhoea glauca Swamp Grass-tree
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Hillslopes and Ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark, Mugga Ironbark & Red Box shrub/grass open forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Occurs on grey to red to yellow podzolic loamy sand soils derived from granite and some metamorphic rocks & Occurs on shallow clayey soils derived from mainly metamorphic substrates such as phyllite or arkose
LOCATION EXAMPLE Wyangala Dam
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus dealbata White Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Inland Scribbly Gum
E. sideroxylon Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Lightwood
A. vestita Hairy Wattle
Brachyloma daphnoides subsp. daphnoides Daphne Heath
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Dogwood
Grevillea ramosissima subsp. ramosissima Messmate Grevillea
GROUND COVERS Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
G. tabacina Variable Glycine
Gonocarpus tetragynus Matted Raspwort
Goodenia hederacea subsp. hederacea Climbing Goodenia
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea Flower
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Isotoma axillaris Blue Isotome
Kunzea parvifolia Burgan
Laxmannia gracilis Slender Matrush
Lepidosperma laterale Prickly Sword-sedge
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Poa sieberiana Grey Tussock
Rytidosperma monticola Mountain Wallaby Grass
R. racemosa var. racemosa Wallaby Grass
Wahlenbergia stricta subsp. stricta Tall Bluebell
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia Swamp Grass-tree