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:

Holbrook District

Flats Rising country & low hills Rocky outcrop
LANDFORM Flats
VEGETATION TYPE Red Gum woodland (creeks)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Alluvial soils & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Billabong Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
# A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
# not noted in area but suggested for planting
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+# Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for planting

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
* 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
# Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

* generally higher country

+ creeklines/soaks/poorly drained sites

# not noted in area but suggested for planting

 

LANDFORM Rising country & low hills
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Also granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Between Hume Highway & Morgan’s Ridge
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
# A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
# A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
# A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
+ # Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for planting

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
* 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
# Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

* generally higher country

+ creeklines/soaks/poorly drained sites

# not noted in area but suggested for planting