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:

Hovells Creek

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Creeks, Rivers and Low Country Flats & Mid Slope Upper Slopes/Hills
LANDFORM Creeks, Rivers and Low Country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel
LOCATION EXAMPLE None Recorded
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 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-rushes
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
R. setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass

 

LANDFORM Flats & Mid Slope
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
LOCATION EXAMPLE None Recorded
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
A. buxifolia Box-leaf wattle
A. dealbata Silver wattle
A. genistifolia Early wattle
A. implexa Hickory/Lightwood
A. lanigera Woolly wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo thorn
A. parramattensis Parramatta wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish wattle
A. vestita Weeping boree
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium strictum Chocolate Lily
Austrostipa bigeniculata Giant Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis cuneata var. cuneata Burr Daisy
C. lappulacea Burr Daisy
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Rock Fern
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Cymbonotus lawsonianus Basket Grass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Goodenia pinnatifida Cut-leaf Goodenia
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Microseris lanceolata Yam Daisy
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma auriculata Wallaby Grass
R. caespitosa Dense Wallaby Grass
R. monticola Mountain Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia sp. Bluebell
Wurmbea dioica Early Nancy
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Upper Slopes/Hills
VEGETATION TYPE Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark & Mugga Ironbark – Inland Scribbly Gum – 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
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus dives Broad leaf peppermint (very minor component)
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 rubida Red-leaved Wattle
A. buxifolia Box-leaf wattle
A. dealbata Silver wattle
A. genistifolia Early wattle
A. implexa Hickory/Lightwood
A. lanigera Woolly wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo thorn
A. parramattensis Parramatta wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish wattle
A. vestita Weeping boree
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf hop bush
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