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:

Grassy Creek

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Upper Slopes Mid Slopes Creeks, Rivers and Low Country
LANDFORM Upper Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Dry Shrubby Box – Ironbark Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Shallow to moderately deep with a loamy to sandy texture, on granite, sandstone, or metasedimentary rocks
LOCATION EXAMPLE (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populnea Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri  Black cypress pine
Eucalyptus goniocalyx  Long-leaf Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon  Ironbark (less likely on granite hills)
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
A. buxifolia  Box-leaf Wattle
A. dealbata  Silver Wattle
A. doratoxylon  Currawang
A. genistifolia  Early Wattle
A. implexa  Hickory/Lightwood
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
A. paradoxa  Kangaroo Thorn
A. parramattensis  Parramatta Wattle
A. falciformis Mountain Hickory
A. verniciflua  Varnish Wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow-leaf Hop Bush
GROUND COVERS Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Platylobium formosum subsp. formosum Waratah
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana Grey Tussock
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grasses
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia Swamp Grass-tree

 

 

LANDFORM Mid Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland & White Box grassy woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Chromosols – fertile deep, loam or clay soils derived from a range of substrates including fine-grained sedimentary and metamorphic rocks but also volcanics and fine-grained granite.
LOCATION EXAMPLE (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens  White Box
E. blakelyi  Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana  Apple Box
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
A. buxifolia  Box-leaf Wattle
A. dealbata  Silver Wattle
A. doratoxylon  Currawang
A. genistifolia  Early Wattle
A. implexa  Hickory/Lightwood
A. lanigera Woolly wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
A. paradoxa  Kangaroo Thorn
A. parramattensis  Parramatta Wattle
A. falciformis Mountain Hickory
A. verniciflua  Varnish Wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish Wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow-leaf Hop Bush
Exocarpus cupressiformis Cherry Ballart
GROUND COVERS Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Platylobium formosum subsp. formosum Waratah
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana Grey Tussock
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grasses
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia Swamp Grass-tree

 

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. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
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 revoluta var. revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra sp. Mat-rush
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
R. setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass