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:

Walla Walla District

Flats and low country Rising country & gently undulating hills Rocky outcrop
LANDFORM Flats and low country
VEGETATION TYPE Box woodland – Yellow Box & Grey Box. Blakely’s Red Gum woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Riverine deposits of clay, silt, sand & gravel. Alluvial loams & grey & brown clays.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Creekline country: Billabong; Petries; Back & Middle.
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
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
+ creeklines
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. paradoxa Kangaroo Thorn
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
+ Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush Pea

+ Billabong Creek
GROUND COVERS Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Calotis cuneifolia Purple Burr-daisy
Carex spp. Sedge
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Geranium spp. Cranesbill
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Microlaena stipoides Weeping Grass
+ Phragmites australis Common Reed
Poa spp. Tussock Grass
Sclerolaena muricata var. semiglabra Black Roly Poly
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass
+Typha spp. Cumbungi

+ creeklines/soaks/poorly drained sites

 

LANDFORM Rising country & gently undulating hills
VEGETATION TYPE White Box woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Mainly residual & colluvial deposits from underlying granite. Red and yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Rising country SE of Walla Walla
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. implexa Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
A. falciformis Hickory Wattle
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. microcarpa Grey Box
E. polyanthemos Red Box
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Pittosporum angustifolium Butterbush
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
A. montana Mallee Wattle
A. pycnantha Golden Wattle
A. rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Sweet Bursaria
Eutaxia microphylla Mallee Bush
Indigofera adesmiifolia Pea Tick Indigo
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium spp. Lily
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
Pimelea curviflora Curved Rice-flower
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass

 

LANDFORM Rocky outcrop
VEGETATION TYPE Dwyer’s Red Gum woodland with Currawang & Long-leaf Box; Red Stringybark dry forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Residual and colluvial deposits from underlying granite. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Stringybark Hill (NW of Gerogery)
TREES >8M Acacia doratoxylon Currawang
A. implexa Hickory Wattle
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Callitris endlicheri Black Cypress Pine
C. glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. dwyeri Dwyer’s Red Gum
E. goniocalyx Long-leaf Box
# E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. nortonii Silver Bundy
* E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpos cupressiformis Native Cherry

* Mainly slopes of rocky outcrop

# Mainly SE aspect
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia rubida Red-stemmed Wattle
A. verniciflua Varnish Wattle
Correa glabra Rock Correa
C. reflexa subsp. reflexa Common Correa
Dillwynia spp. Parrot-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Indigofera australis Austral Indigo
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Arthropodium spp. Lily
Austrostipa spp. Spear Grass
Bothriochloa macra Red-leg Grass
Bulbine bulbosa Bulbine Lily
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids
Chloris truncata Windmill Grass
Rytidosperma spp. Wallaby Grass
Dianella revoluta Spreading Flax-lily
Anthrosachne scaber Common Wheatgrass
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine
Hardenbergia violacea Purple Coral Pea
Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey Guinea-flower
Isotoma axillaris Rock Isotome
Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush
Pelargonium australe Native Storksbill
Pimelea curviflora Curved Rice-flower
Stypandra glauca Nodding Blue-lily
Themeda triandra Kangaroo Grass