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

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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