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:

Bowna - Jindera District

Hill country Low, gently undulating country Rocky outcrop
LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland, Blakely’s Red Gum woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Shallow red & yellow loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Spring Hill (Jindera Gap hills)
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/ Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneu Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
* mainly SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Dillwynia spp. Parrot Pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Grevillea alpina Cat’s Claws
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
Prostanthera lasianthos Mint Bush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis spp Burr Daisy
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Cheilanthes spp Rock Fern
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Desmodium spp. Tick Trefoil
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Leucopogon virgatus Common Beard-heath
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Pimelea spp Rice-flower
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines, creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Low, gently undulating country
VEGETATION TYPE Box woodland (Yellow Box & White Box) & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel, and residual & colluvial deposits from underlying granite. Red & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Jindera vicinity, including Four Mile Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
A. verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
* E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box

+ creeklines

* north of Jindera only

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima
Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Eutaxia microphylla  Mallee Bush-pea
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis spp Burr Daisy
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Cheilanthes spp Rock Fern
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Desmodium spp. Tick Trefoil
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Leucopogon virgatus Common Beard-heath
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Pimelea spp Rice-flower
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
+ drainage lines, creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites

LANDFORM Rocky outcrop
VEGETATION TYPE Dwyer’s Red Gum woodland & Currawang/Long-leaf Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying granite.

Sandy granite soils.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Stringybark Hill (west of Gerogery)
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
* Eucalyptus albens White Box
* E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
# E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
* E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

* lower slopes of rocky outcrop

# mainly SE aspect

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Correa glabra Rock Correa
C. reflexa var. reflexa Common Correa
Dillwynia spp. Parrot Pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis spp Burr Daisy
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Cheilanthes spp Rock Fern
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Desmodium spp. Tick Trefoil
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Leucopogon virgatus Common Beard-heath
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Pimelea spp Rice-flower
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi
+ drainage lines, creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites