revegetate

verb3

1. •
   To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground).
2. •
   To become recolonized by plants.
3. •
   (no longer used) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.).

   • Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy […]. — 1790