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:

Muttama Creek

River, Creeklines and Low country Foot hills, hillcrests & upper hillslopes Footslopes and Hillslopes and siliceous rocky ridges and rocky outcrops Slopes and ridgers
LANDFORM River, Creeklines and Low country
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum shrub/grass riparian tall woodland or open forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Occurs on alluvial loam soils on river banks and adjoining river flats along major watercourses
LOCATION EXAMPLE Muttama Village – TSR R3390
TREES >8M Casuarina cunninghamiana River She-oak
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia baileyana Cootamundra Wattle
A. dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
A. leucoclada Northern Silver wattle
A. mearnsii Black Wattle
A. rubida Red Stem Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa subsp. lasiophylla *Sweet Bursaria
Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Bolboschoenus sp. River Club Rush
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
C. inversa Knob Sedge
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Persicaria decipiens  Slender Knot weed
Phragmities australia Phragmities
Schoenoplectus valadius  River Club Rush
Typha domingensis Bulrush

 

LANDFORM Foot hills, hillcrests & upper hillslopes
VEGETATION TYPE Mugga Ironbark – mixed box woodland on hills
GEOLOGY & SOILS Occurs on yellow to brown gravel, clay-loam soils derived from volcanic rocks such as rhyolite and sedimentary soils such as shale or metamorphic rocks such as phyllite
LOCATION EXAMPLE Hume highway dog on the tucker box -(Brawlin)
TREES >8M Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia difformis  Drooping Wattle
A. flexifolia Bent leaf wattle
A. genistifolia Early Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Brachyloma daphnoides subsp. daphnoides *Daphne Heath
Cassinia sifton Drooping Cassinia
Daviesia genistifolia Broom bitter – pea
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Divisia leptophylla slender bitter – pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Kunzea parvifolia Burgan
Lissanthe strigosa subsp. strigosa Peach Heath
*Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush pea
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma eriantha Hill Wallaby Grass
A. pilosa Hairy Wallaby Grass
A. racemosa Common Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Black-anther Flax Lily
Lomandra filiformis subsp. filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Poa sieberiana Grey Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Footslopes and Hillslopes and siliceous rocky ridges and rocky outcrops
VEGETATION TYPE  Black Cypress Pine – Red Stringybark – red gum – box low open forest + Currawang very tall shrubland + Blakely’s Red Gum – White Box – Yellow Box – Black Cypress Pine -Long-leaved Box – Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Restricted to skeletal lithosol brown loamy sand soils derived from coarse-grained igneous or sedimentary rocks on ridges, rock flats or upper steep slopes + Occurs on skeletal, clay loam lithosol soil derived from granite, sandstone, conglomerate or other siliceous + fertile deep, loam or clay soils derived from a range of substrates including fine-grained sedimentary and metamorphic rocks but also volcanics and fine-grained granite substrates on rock flats or steep escarpments often with exposed northern or western aspects
LOCATION EXAMPLE Muttama Cemetry & Pioneer park
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaved Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos subsp. polyanthemos Red Box
E. sideroxylon Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia baileyana Cootamundra Wattle
A. deanei subsp. paucijuga *Green Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. genistifolia *Early Wattle
A. mearnsii Black Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Calytrix tetragona *Fringe Myrtle
Cryptandra amara  Bitter cryptandra
Dillwynia phylicoides *Leafy Parrot-pea
D. sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Divisia leptophylla slender bitter – pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia Sticky Hop Bush
D. v. subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop Bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo 
I. ademiifolia Tick Indigo
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia Grey Grass-tree
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma sp. Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis cuneata var. cuneata Burr Daisy
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Common Everlasting
C. semipapposum Clustered Everlasting
Arthropodium sp. Chocolate Lily
Glycine tabacina Variable Glycine 
Goodenia pinnatifida Cut-leaf Goodenia
Lepidosperma laterale Variable Sword-sedge
Lomandra filiformis subsp. coriacea Wattle Mat-rush
Microseris lanceolata Yam Daisy
Poa sieberiana Tussock Grass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzy New Holland Daisy
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting

 

LANDFORM Slopes and ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Woodland to shrubland – Drooping Sheoke – Ricinocarpus bowmannii – grasstree tall open shrubland of the Coolac – Tumut Serpentinite Belt
GEOLOGY & SOILS  Shallow dark brown clays being euchrozem or red podzolic soils derived from in a 50 kilometre narrow band of serpentinite and associated substrates between Coolac – Gundagai and Tumut
LOCATION EXAMPLE Top Goobaralong – TSR R45032
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Hickory Wattle
A. falciformis *Mountain Hickory
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus subsp. populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri *Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia decora Showy Wattle
*Banksia marginata Silver Banksia
Beyeria viscosa Sticky Wallaby Bush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow -Leaf Hop Bush
Dodonaea boroniifolia Hairy Hop bush
*Grevillea wilkinsonii Tumut Grevillia
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna aciphylla Australia Senna
GROUND COVERS Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red Grass
Dianella revoluta var. revoluta Blue Flax Lily
Nicotiana suaveolens Austral Sweet Centered Tobacco
Poa sieberiana var. sieberiana Snow Grass
Ricinocarpos bowmanii Bowman’s Pimelea
Spyridium parvifolium  Dusty Miller
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Viola betonicifolia Arrow-leaf Violet
Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia Grass Tree