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:

Munderoo

Note – there appears to be little difference between the vegetation on granite & quartzite soils.
Creeklines and depressions Rolling hills
LANDFORM Creeklines and depressions
VEGETATION TYPE Mountain Swamp Gum forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Granite, gneissic granite and gneiss.
Sandy alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Munderoo Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. stellulata Black Sallee
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Baeckea utilis Mountain Baeckea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
L. obovatum River Tea-tree
L. polygalifolium Lemon-scented Tea-tree
Lomatia myricoides River Lomatia
Polyscias sambucifolius Elderberry Panax

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa labillardieri Tussock Grass
Typha spp. Cumbungi

 

LANDFORM Rolling hills
VEGETATION TYPE Moist open forest: Robertson’s Peppermint & Apple Box;
Broad-leaved Peppermint & Brittle Gum
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist.
Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Most of district
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Banksia marginata Silver Banksia
– Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. bicostata Eurabbie
E. camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dives Broad-leaved Peppermint
* E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
# E. mannifera Brittle Gum
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. stellulata Black Sallee

– south of district, near Ikes Mountain

* mainly north aspect

# particularly on shaley soils
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Baeckea utilis Mountain Baeckea
Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Epacris breviflora Drumstick Heath
Hakea microcarpa Small-fruited Hakea
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
L. obovatum River Tea-tree
L. polygalifolium Lemon-scented Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Clematis aristata Old Man’s Beard
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea/Sarsaparilla
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
L. longifolia Spiny-headed Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
Poa spp. Wallaby Grass
Rubus parvifolius Native Raspberry
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass