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:

Binni

Creekline & low lying areas Low to mid slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creekline & low lying areas
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum/Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist. Red podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Burkes Creek & Mangoplah
TREES >8M + Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ creeklines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush

+ creeklines
GROUND COVERS Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Carex spp. Sedge
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass

 

LANDFORM Low to mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (siliceous sands)
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mangoplah Botanic Gardens
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma eriantha Hill Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Hibbertia riparia Erect Guinea-flower
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Pimelea curviflora Rice-flower
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box/Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (siliceous sands).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mangoplah to Cookardinia Road
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. dwyeri/E. dealbata Dwyer’s Red/Tumbledown Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Hibbertia riparia Erect Guinea-flower
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Poa spp. Tussock Grass