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.

Vegetation Profile:

Back Station - Native Dog Creek

River, Creeklines and Low country Gently undulating lower & mid slopes with short creek lines Upper slopes to high rocky hills and ridges
LANDFORM River, Creeklines and Low country
VEGETATION TYPE  River Red Gum Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Brown & Grey Alluvial Soils

LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee River / Morley’s Creek
TREES >8M Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
Casuarina  cuninghamiana River She Oak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. leucoclada Northern Silver Wattle
Callistermon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
Melicytus dentatus  Tree Violet
Solanum laciniatum Kangaroo Apple
GROUND COVERS Bolboschoenus sp. River Club Rush
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
C. inversa Knob Sedge
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Lomandra longifolia  Spiny-headed Matt-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat Rushes
Persicaria decipiens  Slender Knot weed
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Schoenoplectus Valadius  River Club Rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Typha orientalis Cumbungi
Wahlenbergia stricta Tall Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes to high rocky hills and ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Dry sclerophyl Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite, sedimentary, conglomerate & volcanic rocks
Shallow skeletal gravelly loam soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Nangus rd near abington
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticilliata Drooping She  Oak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakley’s Red Gum
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf  Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Mugga Ironbark
Exocarpus cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia Sticky hop- bush
Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
Busaria spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia leptophylla Slender bitter-pea
??? Dodonaea viscosa Jacq. Sticky hop-bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-Leaf Hop Bush
Indigo australis Austral Indigo
Myoporum montanum R.Br. Western Boobialla
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Ammobium craspedioides Yass Daisy
Austrostipa densifolia Brush Spear Grass
Bothrochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brunonia australis  Blue Pincushion
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral-pea
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-Rush
Microseris lanceolata Yam daisy
Poa sieberiana Snow Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting