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:

NVP - NAME

Drainage Lines Flats, footslopes and hillslopes Slopes and Crests
LANDFORM Drainage Lines
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Young Granodiorite
Red & Yellow Chromosols, Dermosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Demondrille Creek Back Creek Road
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakleys Red Gum 
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. implexa Hickory/Lightwood
A. mearnsii Late Black Wattle
A. vestita Hairy Wattle  
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Dianella porracea Flax Lily
Dianella revoluta Flax Lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Anthrosachne scaber Wheatgrass
Hardenbergia violacea False Sarsaparilla
Linum marginale Native Flax
Lomandra longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
??? Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Flats, footslopes and hillslopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland – Grades into White Box grassy woodland on hillslopes and into either Western Grey Box woodland or Yellow Box woodland on parna or alluvial flats
GEOLOGY & SOILS Chromosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Ayrlie Rd, Cullinga Mines Rd & Nimby Rd
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Cassinia sifton Drooping Cassinia
Eucalyptus albens White Box
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-Leaved Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
Eucalyptus polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia baileyana Cootamundra Wattle
Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
Acacia genistifolia Early Wattle
Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
Acacia implexa Acacia Implexa
Acacia verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Exocarpus cupressiformis Cherry Ballart
GROUND COVERS


 Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Calotis scabiosifolia var. scabiosifolia Yellow burr-daisy
Carex inversa Inverted Sedge
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Sieber’s Rock Fern
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax Lily
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush (Lomandra species)
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass
??? Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
??? Rytidosperma setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia sp. Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Slopes and Crests
VEGETATION TYPE (Some Crests) – White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes. (Slopes) – Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Young Granodiorite
Red & Yellow Chromosols, Dermosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Kingsvale/Wombat/Nubba
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
+ Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakleys Red Gum
* E. goniocalyx Bundy Box/Long-leaved Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box

+ some crests are exclusively White Box

* restricted to small areas
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. implexa Hickory/Lightwood
A. mearnsii Late Black Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Hardenbergia violacea False Sarsparilla
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Dianella porracea Flax Lily
Dianella revoluta Flax Lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Anthrosachne scaber Wheatgrass
Geranium solanderi Native Geranium
Goodenia pinnatifida Cut-leaf Goodenia
Hardenbergia violacea False Sarsaparilla
Indigofera adesmifolia Indigo
Linum marginale Native Flax
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
??? Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell