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 Burkes

Creekline & low-lying land Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines
LANDFORM Creekline & low-lying land
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel (alluvium). Yellow solonetzic (mottled duplex) & alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Burkes Creek
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m + Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
# Eremophila deserti Turkey-bush

+ creekline

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS Carex appressa Tall Sedge
# Juncus spp. Rush
#+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creekline

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Mid to upper slopes & ridgelines
VEGETATION TYPE Box & Red Stringybark woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Pulletop State Forest/Westby/Turkey Springs/‘Wingelo’
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
* Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. goniocalyx/E. nortonii Long-leaf Box/Silver Bundy
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E. rossii Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry
* not on ridges
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia buxifolia

Box-leaf Wattle

A. genistifolia

Spreading/Early Wattle

A. gunnii

Ploughshare Wattle

A. lanigera

Woolly Wattle

* A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

Daviesia latifolia

Hop Bitter-pea

D. leptophylla

Slender Bitter-pea

Dillwynia phyllicoides

Small-leaf Parrot-pea

Grevillea lanigera

Woolly Grevillea

G. polybractea

Crimson Grevillea

Leptospermum multicaule

Silver Tea-tree

Platylobium formosum

Handsome Flat-pea

Pultenaea foliolosa

Bush-pea

* not in Pulletop State Forest

GROUND COVERS

Aristida spp.

Wire Grass

Brachyloma daphnoides

Daphne Heath

Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily

Calotis cuneifolia

Purple Burr-daisy

Rytidosperma racemosa

Wallaby Grass

Dianella revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

Dillwynia sericea

Showy Parrot-pea

Hardenbergia violacea

Purple Coral Pea

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

Lissanthe strigosa

Peach Heath

Lomandra multiflora

Many-flowered Mat-rush

Melichrus urceolatus

Urn Heath

Pimelea linifolia

Rice-flower

Poa sieberiana

Snow/Tussock Grass

Stackhousia monogyna

Creamy Candles

Stypandra glauca

Nodding Blue-lily

Themeda triandra

Kangaroo Grass

Wahlenbergia stricta

Tall Bluebell

Xanthorrhoea spp.

Grass-tree