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:

Snowball - Stony

River & flood plain Lower & upper slopes
LANDFORM River & flood plain
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay and gravel (alluvium) Alluvial soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Murrumbidgee River
TREES >8M # Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Casuarina cunninghamiana River Sheoak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
# Eremophila deserti Turkey-bush

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting
GROUND COVERS Carex spp. Sedge
Juncus spp. Rush
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Typha spp. Cumbungi

 

LANDFORM Lower & upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box & Blakely’s Red Gum (lower) & White Box woodlands (upper)
GEOLOGY & SOILS Conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils & lithosols (earthy loams).
LOCATION EXAMPLE Edwardstown & towards Minjary
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
+ E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
+ E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ lower slopes
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia ulicifolia Prickly Moses
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Pultenaea procumbens Heathy Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS # Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
# Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
# Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting