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:

Cooneys - Jugiong Creek

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River, Creeklines and Low country Flats  Footslopes and Hillslopes
LANDFORM River, Creeklines and Low country
VEGETATION TYPE  River Red Gum shrub/grass riparian tall woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Occurs on alluvial loam soils on river banks and adjoining river flats along major watercourses
LOCATION EXAMPLE Bundarbo Rd
TREES >8M Casuarina cunninghamiana River She-oak
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia Sticky hop- bush
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
Leptospermum obovatum River Tea-tree
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
GROUND COVERS Bolboschoenus sp. River Club Rush
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
C. inversa Knob Sedge
Geranium solanderi Australian Cranesbill
Lomandra longifolia  Spiny-headed Matt-rush
Lomandra spp. Mat Rushes
Persicaria decipiens  Slender Knot weed
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Schoenoplectus Valadius  River Club Rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Typha orientalis Cumbungi
Wahlenbergia stricta Tall Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE  Tableland Grassy Box Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Red earths and non-calcic brown soils in drainage lines. Coarse porphyritic rocks with >50% phenocrysts of coarse quartz crystals in a fine-grained blue-grey to greenish matrix.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Garryowen Rd
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
A. implexa Lightwood
A. mearnsii Black Wattle
A. rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Exocarpos cupressiformis Cherry Ballart
Indigofera adesmiifolia Austral Indigo
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium milleflorum Pale Vanilla Lily
Arthropodium strictum Chocolate Lily
Dianella porracea Pale Flax-lily
D. revoluta Blue Flax-lily
Einadia nutans Nodding Saltbush
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
L. longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
L. multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Microseris lanceolata Yam Daisy
Poa sp. Tussock Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM  Footslopes and Hillslopes
VEGETATION TYPE  Blakely’s Red Gum – Yellow Box grassy tall woodland + White Box grassy woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS  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 Bouyeo Rd, Berramangara Rd, Cumbamurra Rd, Back Jugiong Rd, Glen Ayr Rd,
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping She-oak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
A. implexa Lightwood
A. mearnsii Black Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-leaved Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Exocarpos cupressiformis Cherry Ballart
Indigofera adesmiifolia Austral Indigo
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Carex inversa Clustered Sedge
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
Convolvulus graminetinus Twining Bindweed
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Spreading Flax Lily
Geranium solanderi var. solanderi Native Geranium
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wiry Mat-rush
L. multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata New Holland Daisy
Wahlenbergia luteola Yellowish Wahlenbergia
Wahlenbergia sp. Bluebell
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting