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 Kyeamba

Creeklines and flats Low to mid slopes Upper slopes
LANDFORM Creeklines and flats
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium. Yellow solonetzic (mottled-yellow duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE Book Book area
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+ E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
+ creekline only
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia genistifolia Spreading/ Early Wattle
# A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
# A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle

# not noted in area but

suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
+ Carex spp. Sedge
+ Juncus spp. Rush
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creeklines/damp areas

 

LANDFORM Low to mid slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Kyeamba adamellite. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE “Talland”
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle / Lightwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx / E. nortonii Long-leaf Box / Silver Bundy
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading / Early Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
+ Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree

+ soaks/poorly drained sites

GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
+ Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Cheiranthera cyanea Finger Flower
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lissanthe strigosa Peach Heath
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily

+ drainage lines

 

LANDFORM Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Red Box/Red Stringybark woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Kyeamba adamellite. Red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Kyeamba/Kilgowla Mountain
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. polyanthemos Red Box
E.sideroxylon Red/Mugga Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia genistifolia Spreading / Early Wattle
A. gunnii Ploughshare Wattle
Cassinia longifolia Shiny Cassinia
Cheiranthera cyanea Finger Flower
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Grevillea lanigera Woolly Grevillea
Putenaea foliolosa Bush -pea
Styphelia triflora Pink Five Corners
GROUND COVERS Aristida spp. Wire Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Brachyloma daphnoides Daphne Heath
+ Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dillwynia sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Melichrus urceolatus Urn Heath
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
+ Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ drainage lines/damp areas