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

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 ???
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populnea Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri  Black cypress pine
Eucalyptus goniocalyx  Long-leaf Box
Eucalyptus polyanthemos  Red Box
Eucalyptus polyanthemos  Red Box
Eucalyptus sideroxylon  Ironbark (less likely on granite hills)
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Acacia buxifolia  Box-leaf wattle
Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
Acacia doratoxylon  Currawang
Acacia genistifolia  Early wattle
Acacia implexa  Hickory/Lightwood
Acacia lanigera  Woolly wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
Acacia paradoxa  Kangaroo thorn
Acacia parramattensis  Parramatta wattle
Acacia falciformis Mountain hickory
Acacia verniciflua  Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp Wallaby Grasses
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
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 ???
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens  White Box
Eucalyptus blakelyi  Blakely’s Red Gum
Eucalyptus bridgesiana  Apple Box
Eucalyptus dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Acacia buxifolia  Box-leaf wattle
Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
Acacia doratoxylon  Currawang
Acacia genistifolia  Early wattle
Acacia implexa  Hickory/Lightwood
Acacia lanigera  Woolly wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
Acacia paradoxa  Kangaroo thorn
Acacia parramattensis  Parramatta wattle
Acacia falciformis Mountain hickory
Acacia verniciflua  Varnish wattle
Acacia verniciflua  Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow leaf hop bush
Exocarpus cupressiformis Cherry Ballart
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp Wallaby Grasses
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
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 ???
TREES >8M Casuarina cunninghamiana  River She-Oak
Eucalyptus bridgesiana  Apple Box
Eucalyptus camaldulensis  River Red Gum
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood Acacia
Callistemon sieberi  River bottlebrush
Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree
Leptospermum obovatum River Tea Tree
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
Rytidosperma setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex inversa Inverted Sedge
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush (Lomandra species)
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass