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:

Lower Tarcutta

Mid to upper slopes Creekline, flats & lower slopes Rocky hills and ridgelines
LANDFORM Mid to upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Ironbark & Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Mundarlo Road & Mt. Adrah area
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading/Early Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma eriantha Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Arthropodium strictus Chocolate Lily
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
Spyridium parvifolium Dusty Miller
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Creekline, flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box/Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – clay, silt, sand & gravel. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Tarcutta region & Tarcutta Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
+ A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
+ creeklines only
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. genistifolia Spreading / Early Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS + Carex spp. Sedge
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Maireana microphylla Eastern Cottonbush

+  drainage lines/damp areas

 

LANDFORM Rocky hills and ridgelines
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornsfels & schist. Lithosols (earthy loams) & red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE “The Willows” East Tarcutta
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Leptospermum  spp. Tea-tree

+  creek/drainage lines
GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Cheilanthes sieberi Rock Fern
Leucopogon spp. Beard Heath
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Spyridium parvifolium Dusty Miller
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass-tree