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:

Boorowa Flats - Rocky Ponds Creek

Creeks, Rivers and Low Country Mid Slopes Upper Slopes
LANDFORM Creeks, Rivers and Low Country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand and gravel
LOCATION EXAMPLE ???
TREES >8M Casuarina cunninghamiana  River She-Oak
Eucalyptus bridgesiana  Apple Box
Eucalyptus camaldulensis  River Red Gum
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata  Silver wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Black Wood
Callistemon sieberi  River bottlebrush
Leptospermum continentale  Prickly Tea-tree
Leptospermum obovatum River Tea Tree
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma auriculata Common Wallaby-grass
Rytidosperma setacea Bristly Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex inversa Inverted Sedge
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush (Lomandra species)
Poa sieberiana Sieber’s Tussock Grass

 

LANDFORM Mid Slopes
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 granite.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Broken Dam Rd, Bundarbo St, Barwang Rd, Goorama Rd & Hartfield Rd
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
Eucalyptus dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf wattle
Acacia dealbata Silver wattle
Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
Acacia genistifolia Early wattle
Acacia implexa Hickory/Lightwood
Acacia lanigera Woolly wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo thorn
Acacia falciformis Mountain hickory
Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Acacia verniciflua Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Asperula conferta Common Woodruff
Rytidosperma sp. Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Juncus filicaulis Thread Rush
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia sp. Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Upper Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Dry Shrubby Box – Ironbark Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Shallow to moderately deep with a loamy to sandy texture, on granite, sandstone or metasedimentary rocks
LOCATION EXAMPLE ???
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populnea Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black cypress pine
Eucalyptus goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
Eucalyptus polyanthemos Red Box
Eucalyptus sideroxylon Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf wattle
Acacia dealbata Silver wattle
Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
Acacia genistifolia Early wattle
Acacia implexa Hickory/Lightwood
Acacia lanigera Woolly wattle
Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo thorn
Acacia falciformis Mountain hickory
Acacia rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Acacia verniciflua Varnish wattle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf hop bush
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma pilosa Hairy Wallaby Grass
Rytidosperma racemosa var. racemosa Narrow-leaved Wallaby Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chrysocephalum semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Cymbonotus preissianus Grey Sandpaper Bush
Arthropodium strictum Chocolate Lily
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
Pultenaea foliolosa Leafy Bush-pea
Pultenaea pedunculata Common Bush-pea
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass