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:

Keajura

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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 verticillata 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 phylicoides 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