O’Briens North

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:

Upper to lower slopes

Lower to upper slopes

LANDFORM	Upper to lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Granite
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Mt. Flakney (east face)
TREES >8M	Acacia implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Allocasuarina verticillata	Drooping Sheoak
	Brachychiton populneus	Kurrajong
	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	* E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	* E. goniocalyx	Long-leaf Box
	E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	* E. sideroxylon	Red/Mugga Ironbark
	* lower reaches
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia buxifolia	Box-leaf Wattle
	A. genistifolia	Spreading/Early Wattle
	A. pycnantha	Golden Wattle
	Calytrix tetragona	Common Fringe-myrtle
	Indigofera australis	Austral Indigo
	Pultenaea foliolosa	Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS	Aristida spp.	Wire Grass
	Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	Bulbine bulbosa	Bulbine Lily
	Cheilanthes spp.	Rock Fern
	Cheiranthera cyanea	Finger Flower
	Geranium solanderi	Austral Cranesbill
	Hardenbergia violacea	Purple Coral Pea
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	Lissanthe strigose	Peach Heath
	Lomandra multiflora	Many-flowered Mat Rush
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	Pimelea linifolia	Rice-flower
	Stypandra glauca	Nodding Blue-lily

LANDFORM	Lower to upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Red Box & Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Yellow solonetzic (drainage lines), red & yellow podzolic (duplex), & lithosols (siliceous loams).
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Big Springs Road & O’Briens Creek Road
TREES >8M	Acacia implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Allocasuarina verticillate	Drooping Sheoak
	* Brachychiton populneus	Kurrajong
	Callitris glaucophylla	White Cypress Pine
	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	* E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
	E. microcarpa	Grey Box
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	E. rossii	Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
	E. sideroxylon	Mugga/Red Ironbark
	* upper reaches
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia genistifolia	Spreading/Early Wattle
	A. lanigera	Woolly Wattle
	A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	A. pycnantha	Golden Wattle
	+ Daviesia leptophylla	Slender Bitter-pea
	Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	Pultenaea foliolosa	Bush-pea
	+ mid-upper reaches
GROUND COVERS	Xerochrysum viscosum	Sticky Everlasting
	+Carex appressa	Tall Sedge
	Dianella porracea	Smooth Flax-lily
	D. revoluta	Spreading Flax-lily
	Geranium solanderi	Austral Cranesbill
	Glycine clandestina	Twining Glycine
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	+ Juncus spp.	Rush
	Lissanthe strigosa	Peach Heath
	Lomandra multiflora	Many-flowered Mat-rush
	Melichrus urceolatus	Urn Heath
	+Typha spp.	Cumbungi
	*+ drainage lines/damp areas*