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 Adelong & Upper Yaven

Creekline & low slopes Mid slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creekline & low slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Apple Box/Candlebark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle bathylith. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Hindmarsh Creek (Tomkins Bridge area)
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata Common Cassinia
#C. longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Leptospermum obovatum River Tea-tree

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa sieberiana Snow/TussockGrass
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

+ watercourses/wet areas

 

LANDFORM Mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Amphibolite, diorite. Red earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Green Hills area
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Eucalyptus bridgesiana Apple Box
E. dalrympleana Mountain Grey Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. pauciflora White Sallee/Snow Gum
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla Hairy Bursaria
Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
# Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
# Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea

# not noted in area but suggested for replanting
GROUND COVERS Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland/forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Maragle bathylith. Red earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Ardrossan/White Gate area
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
+ Eucalyptus camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dalrympleana Mountain Grey Gum
E. pauciflora Snow Gum/White Sallee
E. robertsonii Robertson’s  Peppermint
E. rubida Candlebark
E. viminalis Manna Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
+ drainage lines/damp areas
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Coprosma hirtella Rough Coprosma
Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitter-pea
D. ulicifolia Gorse Bitter-pea
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
+ Leptospermum  continentale  Prickly Tea-tree
Platylobium  formosum Handsome  Flat-pea

+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS Billardiera scandens Common Apple-berry
Clematis aristate Old Man’s Beard
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Tetratheca ciliata Pink Bells/Pink Eye
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass