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

 

LANDFORM Rocky outcrop
VEGETATION TYPE

Dry sclerophyll forest – Dwyer’s Red Gum, Red Stringybark & Currawang.

GEOLOGY & SOILS

Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Morgan’s Ridge
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. doratoxylon

Currawang

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak

Eucalyptus dwyeri

Dwyer’s Red Gum

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

* E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Native Cherry

* mainly S & SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle

A. verniciflua

Varnish Wattle

Calytrix tetragona

Common Fringe-myrtle

Persoonia rigida

Hairy Geebung

GROUND COVERS

Austrostipa spp.

Spear Grass

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Brachyloma daphnoides

Daphne Heath

Xerochrysum viscosum

Sticky Everlasting

Chloris truncate

Windmill Grass

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Glycine clandestine

Twining Glycine

Hardenbergia violacea

Purple Coral Pea

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

H. sericea

Silky Guinea-flower

Isotoma axillaris

Rock Isotome

Microlaena stipoides

Weeping Grass

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

Xanthorrhoea spp.

Grass Tree