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:

Bribbaree - Duck Hole Creek

Drainage Lines Slopes and Crests Plains
LANDFORM Drainage Lines
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest & Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS East – Young Granodiorite
Yellow Chromosols, Dermosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Thuddungra/Tubbul
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakleys Red Gum 
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. implexa Hickory/Lightwood
A. mearnsii Late Black Wattle
A. vestita Hairy Wattle  
Callistemon paludosus River Bottlebrush 
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium minus Vanilla Lily
Rytidosperma auriculata Lobed Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
C. inversa Knob Sedge
Cyperus eragrostis Swamp Flat-sedge
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Nodding Saltbush
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-sedge
E. pusilla Dwarf Spike-sedge
Anthrosachne scaber var. scaber Native Wheat Grass
Juncus amabilis Lovely Rush
J. aridicola Dryland Rush
J. psammophilus Sandy Rush
J. usitatus Common Rush
Persicaria hydropiper Water Pepper
Typha domingensis Bulrush

 

LANDFORM Slopes and Crests
VEGETATION TYPE White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes, Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland & Blakely’s Red Gum – White Box – Yellow Box – Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on undulating hills
GEOLOGY & SOILS East – Young Granodiorite
Yellow Chromosols, Dermosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Thuddungra, Tubbul & Coolibah Rd TSR
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box  (some crests are exclusively White Box)
E. blakelyi Blakleys Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Bundy Box/Long-leaved Box (restricted to small areas)
E. melliodora Yellow Box
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
Hardenbergia violacea False Sarsparilla
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma sp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Flax Lily
Arthropodium strictum Chocolate Lily
Anthrosachne scaber Wheatgrass
Geranium solanderi Native Geranium
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Plains
VEGETATION TYPE  Western Grey Box tall grassy woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Bland Riverine Plain Alluvium – Vertosols & Chromosols
LOCATION EXAMPLE Bribbaree
TREES >8M Allocasuarina leuhmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Casuarina cristata Belah
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakleys Red Gum
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Dean’s Wattle
A. decora  Western Golden Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. flexifolia Bent-Leaf Wattle
A. hakeoides Hakea Wattle
A. lineata Streaked Wattle
A. osswaldii Umbrella Wattle
A. trineura Three Veined Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Cassina quinquefaria Cassinia
C. sifton Drooping Cassinia
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Long-leaf Emu Bush
Eutaxia microphylla Common Eutaxia
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
Myoporum acuminatum Water Bush
Pittosporum angustifolium Weeping Pittosporum
Senna artemisioides subsp. nemophila Desert Cassia
GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Berry Saltbush
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Dianella porracea Pale Flax Lily
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Nodding Saltbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Juncus filicaulis Thread Rush
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
Poa sieberiana Grey Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
V. gracilis Woolly New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia gracilis Tufted Bluebell
Wahlenbergia sp. Bluebell