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 Jerra Jerra & Upper Back

Hills Flats & lower slopes Hills
LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE

White Box woodland & Red Stringybark dry forest

GEOLOGY & SOILS

Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Peddles Hill
TREES >8M

Acacia dealbata

Silver Wattle

A. doratoxylon

Currawang

A. implexa

Hickory Wattle

Allocasuarina verticillate

Drooping Sheoak

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong

Eucalyptus albens

White Box

E. blakelyi

Blakely’s Red Gum

E. goniocalyx

Long-leaf Box

* E. macrorhyncha

Red Stringybark

# E. melliodora

Yellow Box

# E. microcarpa

Grey Box

* mainly S & SE aspects # lower slopes
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

A. pycnantha

Golden Wattle

Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata

Common Cassinia

Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata

Wedge-leaf Hop-bush

GROUND COVERS

Arthropodium spp.

Lily

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Geranium spp.

Austral Cranesbill

Hibbertia obtusifolia

Grey Guinea-flower

Xanthorrhoea spp.

Grass Tree

 

LANDFORM Flats & lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE

Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland. Grey Box woodland.

GEOLOGY & SOILS

Mainly alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Red & yellow earths.

LOCATION EXAMPLE Cookardinia & further south
TREES >8M

Acacia implexa

Hickory Wattle

* 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. nortonii

Silver Bundy

* not on clay soils

+ creeklines only

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m

Acacia acinacea

Gold-dust Wattle

A. deanei

Deane’s Wattle

A. paradoxa

Kangaroo Thorn

A. pycnantha

Golden Wattle

GROUND COVERS

Bothriochloa macra

Red-leg Grass

Carex spp.

Sedge

Rytidosperma spp.

Wallaby Grass

Dianella porracea

Smooth Flax-lily

D. revoluta

Spreading Flax-lily

Anthrosachne scaber

Common Wheatgrass

Lissanthe strigose

Peach Heath

Lomandra spp.

Mat-rush

Microlaena stipoides

Weeping Grass

+ Phragmites australis

Common Reed

Themeda spp.

Kangaroo Grass

+ Typha spp.

Cumbungi

+ Juncus spp.

Rush

+ creeks/soaks/ poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Hills
VEGETATION TYPE Red Stringybark & Scribbly Gum/Snap Gum dry forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Sandy yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Nest Hill
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
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/Cherry Ballart
* mainly S & SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. lanigera Woolly Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Cassinia spp. Cassinia
Daviesia leptophylla Slender Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phyllicoides species complex Small-leaf Parrot-pea
Grevillea lanigera Woolly Wattle
G. polybractea Crimson Grevillea
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Leptospermum multicaule Silver Tea-tree
Persoonia rigida Hairy Geebung
Platylobium formosum Handsome Flat-pea
Pultenaea foliolosa Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp.  Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
Brunonia australis Blue Pincushion
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Cheiranthera linearis Finger Flower
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dillwynia spp. Parrot Pea
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Glycine clandestine Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
H. riparia Erect Guinea-flower
Joycea pallida Red-anther Wallaby Grass
Leucopogon virgatus Common Beard-heath
Lissanthe strigose Peach Heath
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Pimelea linifolia Rice-flower
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
Xanthorrhoea spp. Grass Tree