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:

Thugga & Culcairn East

Flats & lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Yellow Box woodlands & Grey Box woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – gravel, sand, silt & clay. Grey and brown clays/hard setting yellow soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Olympic Highway vicinity
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
+ Billabong Creek
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. difformis Drooping Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge-leaf Hop-bush

+ Billabong Creek

* Western area of district

GROUND COVERS Atriplex semibaccata Creeping/Berry Saltbush
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
D. longifolia Smooth Flax-lily
Lomandra multiflora Many-flowered Mat-rush
+ Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
* Phragmites australis Common Reed
+ Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Templetonia stenophylla Templetonia
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
* Typha spp. Cumbungi

* Creeks/soaks

+ Mainly along creek banks

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland & Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS

Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels, schist & porphyry. Sandy yellow earths.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Hills in ‘Boorook’ vicinity
TREES >8M

Acacia implexa

Hickory Wattle/Lightwood

Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

Callitris glaucophylla

White Cypress Pine

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

* E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

Santalum acuminatum

Quandong

* Mainly S-SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia acinacea

Gold-dust Watle

A. decora

Western Golden Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

A. pycnantha

Golden Wattle

Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa

Sweet Bursaria

Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata

Common Cassinia

Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima

Narrow-leaf Hop-bush

D. viscosa subsp. cuneata

Wedge-leaf Hop-bush

Dillwynia phylicoides spp. complex

Small-leaf Parrot-pea

GROUND COVERS

Austrostipa spp.

Spear Grass

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Chloris truncata

Windmill Grass

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Dianella revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

Glycine clandestina

Twining Glycine

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

Lissanthe strigosa

Peach-heath

Lomandra spp.

Mat-rush

Pimelea spp.

 Rice-flower

Themeda triandra

 Kangaroo Grass