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:

Burrumbuttock - West Hume

Flats & gentle rises Hills
LANDFORM Flats & gentle rises
VEGETATION TYPE Box woodland (eg. White Box)
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel.

Light alluvial soils.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Burrumbuttock Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
A. pendula Boree
Allocasuarina luehmanni Bulloak
A. verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
# E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box

# in east of catchment

+ particularly swamps

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Golden Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia sifton Dolly Bush
Eutaxia microphylla var. diffusa Mallee Bush Pea
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire Grass
Austrostipa blackii Crested Speargrass
Austrostipa spp.
Spear Grass
Calotis cuneifolia Burr Daisy
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Daviesia genistifolia Broom Bitter-pea
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot Pea
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Maireana decalvens Cotton Bush
M. microphylla Eastern Cotton Bush
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Sclerolaena muricata var. semiglabra Black Roly Poly
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE

White Box & Grey Box woodland.

Dwyers Red Gum woodland (Mt Goombargana)

GEOLOGY & SOILS

Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying granite & meta-sediments.

Red & yellow earths/sandy granites.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Burrumbuttock Hill, Mt Goombargana
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
* Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
# E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

* may not be locally native this far west

# in east of catchment

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
* A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Daviesia ulcifolia Gorse Bitter Pea
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo

* in west of catchment

# in east of catchment

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Clematis spp. Clematis
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Cryptandra amara Pretty Cryptandra
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Desmodium spp. Tick Treefoil
Geranium solanderi var. solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Glycine spp. Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass