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:

Majors Creek

LANDFORM

Flats / plain

VEGETATION TYPE

River Red Gum woodland

GEOLOGY & SOILS

Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel.

Alluvial loams & clays.

LOCATION EXAMPLE

Murray River & Plain

TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

* Callitris glaucophylla

White Cypress Pine

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakley’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

E. camaldulensis

River Red Gum

* E. melliodora

Yellow Box

* lighter soils

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia acinacea

Gold-dust Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa

Sweet Bursaria

+ Callistemon sieberi

River Bottlebrush

Exocarpos strictus

Dwarf Cherry

+ Murray River bank

GROUND COVERS

Austrostipa spp.

Spear Grass

Carex spp.

Sedge

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Anthrosachne scaber

Common Wheatgrass

Anthrosachne scaber

Rush

Microlaena stipoides

Weeping Grass

Phragmites australis

Common Reed

Poa labillardieri

Tussock Grass

Sclerolaena muricata var. semiglabra

Black Roly Poly

Typha spp.

Cumbungi

LANDFORM Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments. Red brown earths
LOCATION EXAMPLE Moorwatha
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
Geijera parvifolia Wilga
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
Myoporum montanum Waterbush
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Gras
+ Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Eryngium spp. Blue Devil
Glycine spp. Glycine
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Pimelea curviflora var. sericea Curved Rice Flower
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Residual & colluvial deposits from underlying meta-sediments.

Red brown earths.

LOCATION EXAMPLE One Tree Hill
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
* E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
* eastern hills of catchment only
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
* A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo

* eastern hills of catchment only

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass/Red Grass
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids
Calotis cuneifolia Burr Daisy
Cheilanthes sieberi subsp. sieberi Rock Fern
Convolvulus erubescens Australian Bindweed
Rytidosperma spp Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral-pea
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pimelea curviflora var. sericea Curved Rice-flower
Stackhousia monogyna Creamy Candles
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass