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:

Mountain Creek, Native Dog & Sandy Creek

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Creeks Low country Rising & hill country
LANDFORM Creeks
VEGETATION TYPE Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Red & yellow earths
LOCATION EXAMPLE Ten Mile Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
# Kunzea ericoides Burgan

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides  Weeping Grass
Poa spp.  Tussock Grass
Phragmites australis  Common Reed
Typha spp.  Cumbungi

 

LANDFORM Low country
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Red & yellow earths
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Hume Highway in NE of catchment
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton  populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rubida Candlebark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading Wattle/Early Wattle
# Acacia paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
# Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
# Indigofera adesmiifolia Tick Indigo
# Kunzea ericoides Burgan

# Not noted in the area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
+ Juncus spp. Rush
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ creeks soaks/ poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Rising & hill country
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland. Also Blakely’s Red Gum & Red Stringybark dry forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Mainly sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Along Hume Highway in SE of catchment
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
* E. dealbata Tumbledown Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
# E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry/Cherry Ballart

* mainly N & NW aspect

# mainly S & SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading Wattle/Early Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg grass
Bracteantha spp. Everlasting Daisy
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pelargonium spp. Storksbill
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass