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:

Fowlers Swamp and Wagra

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Flats & lower slopes Hill country
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box woodland on lower slopes. White Box on mid-slopes.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Wymah vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakley’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ creeks
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
#+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+  Creeks, soaks & poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE Red Gum woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Wagra Mountain
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
# A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Allocasuarina verticillate Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
# E. bicostata Eurabbie
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
# E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
#* E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
E. polyanthemos Red Box
# E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

# Higher elevations, mainly above 500 metres

* Mainly S & SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Dillwynia phyllicoides spp. complex Small-leaf Parrot-pea
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung

+ soaks/poorly drained  sites
GROUND COVERS Adiantum aethiopicum Common Maidenhair
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Bracteantha bracteate Golden Everlasting
B. viscosa Sticky Everlasting
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Chloris truncate Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Pelargonium spp. Storksbill
Pimelea spp. Rice-flower
Poa spp. Tussock grass
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily