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:

Talmalmo - Murray

Flats and lower slopes Hill country
LANDFORM Flats and lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE

Red Gum Woodland along creeks. Box – Blakely’s Red Gum woodland on lower slopes.
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay, along creeks. Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneissic. Also quartzite, slate & schist on lower slopes. Light alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Talmalmo
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. melanoxylon

Blackwood

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. bridgesiana

Apple Box

+ E. camaldulensis

River Red Gum

E. polyanthemos

Red Box
+ Murray River
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia rubida

Red-stemmed Wattle

A. verniciflua

Varnish Wattle

Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla

Hairy Bursaria

+ Callistemon sieberi

River Bottlebrush

Melicytes dentatus

Tree Violet

Kunzea ericoides

Burgan

+  Murray River

* soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

+ Carex spp.

Sedge

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

+ Juncus spp.

Rush

Microlaena stipoides

Weeping Grass

+ Phragmites australis

Common Reed

Poa labillardieri

Tussock Grass

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

+ Typha spp.

Cumbungi

+ creeks, river, soaks & poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box & Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Also quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Woomargama State Forest
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

A. melanoxylon

Blackwood

Allocasuarina verticillate

Drooping Sheoak

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

Callitris endlicheri

Black Cypress Pine

Eucalyptus blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

* E. bicostata

Eurabbie

* E. dives

Broad-leaved Peppermint

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

* E. mannifera

Brittle Gum

E. polyanthemos

Red Box

* E. robertsonii

Robertson’s Peppermint

* E. rubida

Candlebark

* E. viminalis

Manna Gum

Exocarpos cupressiformis

Native Cherry

* Mainly over 500 m elevation or on moist S & SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia rubida

Red-stemmed Wattle

A. verniciflua

Varnish Wattle

Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla

Hairy Bursaria

Calytrix tetragona

Common Fringe-myrtle

Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata

Common Cassinia

C. longifolia

Shiny Cassinia

Daviesia latifolia

Hop Bitter-pea

D. leptophylla

Slender Bitter-pea

Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata

Wedge-leaf Hop-bush

Kunzea ericoides

Burgan

Kunzea Parvifolia

Violet Kunzea

Melicytes dentatus

Tree Violet

+ Leptospemum continentale

Prickly Tea-tree

Platylobium formosum

Handsome Flat-pea

Pultenaea cunninghamii

Grey Bush-pea

P. foliolosa

Bush-pea

+ poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS

Adiantum aethiopicum

Common Maidenhair

Austrostipa spp.

Spear Grass

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Brachyloma daphnoides

Daphne Heath

Bracteantha bracteate

Golden Everlasting

B. viscosa

Sticky Everlasting

Brunonia australis

Blue Pincushion

Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Dianella porracea

Smooth Flax-lily

Dillwynia sericea

Showy Parrot-pea

Geranium spp.

Cranesbill

Glycine clandestine

Twining Glycine

Hardenbergia violacea

Purple Coral Pea

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

Pelargonium austral

Native Storksbill

Pimelea spp.

Rice-flower

Poa spp.

Tussock Grass

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass