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:

Lake Albert

Higher slopes & ridgelines Flats & lower slopes Mid slopes
LANDFORM Higher slopes & ridgelines
VEGETATION TYPE Tumbledown Gum & White Cypress Pine woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite. Siliceous sands.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Plum Pudding Hill
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily

 

LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – Terrace alluvium. Yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Gregadoo Road & Rowan area
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
+ drainage lines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
# A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
#+Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks & poorly drained areas

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS + Carex spp. Sedge
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite. Red podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Gregadoo Hill (western aspect)
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Western Silver Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Cassinia sifton Chinese shrub
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Aristida behriana Brush Wire Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily