Keajura

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:

Creekline & low-lying areas

Mid slopes

Upper slopes

LANDFORM	Creekline & low-lying areas
VEGETATION TYPE	Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Alluvium. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Keajura Creek & Hume Highway
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
	E. microcarpa	Grey Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia genistifolia	Spreading / Early Wattle
	# A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	# Cassinia sifton	Dolly Bush
	# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS	#+ Carex spp.	Sedge
	#+ Juncus spp.	Rush
	+ Phragmites australis	Common Reed
	+ Typha spp.	Cumbungi
	+ creeks/watercourses # not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

LANDFORM	Mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Keajura/Coreinbob area & Hume Highway
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. melanoxylon	Blackwood
	Allocasuarina verticillate	Drooping Sheoak
	Callitris glaucophylla	White Cypress Pine
	Eucalyptus albens	White Box
	E. goniocalyx	Long-leaf Box
	E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	E. rossii	Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
	E. sideroxylon	Red/Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia lanigera	Woolly Wattle
	A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	A. pycnantha	Golden Wattle
	A. verniciflua	Varnish Wattle
	Cassinia sifton	Dolly Bush
	Daviesia leptophylla	Slender Bitter-pea
	Grevillea lanigera	Woolly Grevillea
	Pultenaea foliolosa	Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	Yellow Buttons
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	Dianella porracea	Smooth Flax-lily
	D. revoluta	Spreading Flax-lily
	Dillwynia sericea	Showy Parrot-pea
	Anthrosachne scaber	Common Wheat-grass
	Glycine clandestine	Twining Glycine
	Lomandra multiflora	Many-flowered Mat-rush
	Poa sieberiana	Snow/Tussock Grass
	Stypandra glauca	Nodding Blue-lily
	Wahlenbergia stricta	Tall Bluebell

LANDFORM	Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Red Box/Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Kyeamba adamellite. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Kilgowla Mountain
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. doratoxylon	Currawang
	A. implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Brachychiton populneus	Kurrajong
	Eucalyptus goniocalyx	Long-leaf Box
	E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	E. sideroxylon	Red/Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia genistifolia	Spreading/Early Wattle
	A. gunnii	Ploughshare Wattle
	A. verniciflua	Varnish Wattle
	Cassinia longifolia	Shiny Cassinia
	Daviesia leptophylla	Slender Bitter-pea
	Dillwynia phyllicoides species complex	Small-leaf Parrot-pea
	Grevillea polybractea	Crimson Grevillea
GROUND COVERS	Brachyloma daphnoides	Daphne Heath
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	Lomandra spp.	Mat-rush
	Melichrus urceolatus	Urn Heath