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:

Pudmans 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 (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 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 (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana  Apple Box
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved 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. paradoxa  Kangaroo thorn
A. parramattensis  Parramatta wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium fimbriatus Common Chocolate Lily
A. minus Chocolate Lily
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Black-anther Flax Lily
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
G. tabacina Variable Glycine
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy

 

LANDFORM Upper Slopes/Hills
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 (no intact example available)
TREES >8M Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus dives  Broad leaf peppermint (very minor component)
E. goniocalyx  Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha  Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos  Red Box
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. paradoxa  Kangaroo thorn
A. parramattensis  Parramatta wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish wattle
A. verniciflua  Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima  Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Cymbonotus preissianus Grey Sandpaper Bush
Gonocarpus tetragynus Ruddy Ground-berry
Hardenbergia violacea Native Sarsaparilla
Joycea pallida Pale Rush-lily
Lepidosperma laterale Variable Sword-sedge
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Persoonia sericea Geebung
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana Grey Tussock Grass
Pultenaea cunninghamii Cunningham’s Bush-pea
P. foliolosa Leafy Bush-pea
P. pedunculata Common Bush-pea
Rytidosperma pilosa Hairy Wallaby Grass
R. racemosa var. racemosa Narrow-leaved Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Wahlenbergia stricta subsp. stricta Tall Bluebell