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:

Wagga Wagga City

Higher slopes Mid to lower slopes River’s edge Low rises (catchment for Lake Albert)
LANDFORM Higher slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Lithosols (siliceous sands) & red podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Willan’s Hill
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia buxifolia Box-leaf Wattle
A. deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
GROUND COVERS Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting
Cheilanthes sieberi Rock Fern
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Einadia nutans Climbing Saltbush
Glycine canescens Silky Glycine
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Pimelea curviflora Rice Flower
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed
Wahlenbergia stricta Bluebell

 

LANDFORM River’s edge
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Unconsolidated riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel (alluvium). Alluvial soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Gobba Bridge to Eunony Bridge
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. leucoclada Northern Silver Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Casuarina cunninghamiana River Sheoak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
# Eremophila deserti Turkey-bush

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Lomandra spp. Mat-rush
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Typha spp. Cumbungi
Vittadinia cuneata Fuzzweed
Wahlenbergia spp. Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Low rises (catchment for Lake Albert)
VEGETATION TYPE Grey box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Alluvium – sand, silt, clay, gravel & terrace alluvium. Yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Rawling Park Bushland Reserve
TREES >8M Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
* Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
* E. polyanthemos Red Box
* eastern boundary of catchment on slight rises
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m # Acacia deanei Deane’s Wattle
A. decora Western Silver Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
# Pultenaea foliolosa Small-leaf Bush-pea

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

GROUND COVERS

Aristida behriana Brush Wire Grass
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Cheilanthes spp. Rock Fern
Chrysocephalum apiculatum Yellow Buttons
Dianella porracea Smooth Flax-lily
D. revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium solanderi Austral Cranesbill
Lomandra multiflora Mat-rush
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Xerochrysum viscosum Sticky Everlasting