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Pelisser’s Toadflax (<em>Linaria pelisseriana</em>)

Pelisser’s Toadflax (Linaria pelisseriana)

Format ImagePosted on November 13, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Pelisser’s Toadflax (Linaria pelisseriana)

Pelisser’s Toadflax (Linaria pelisseriana), a slender purple-flowering member of Plantaginaceae originating in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Pelisser’s Toadflax was first recorded growing freely in  …  Read the full post

Devil’s Apple (<em>Solanum linnaeanum</em>)

Devil’s Apple (Solanum linnaeanum)

Format ImagePosted on November 6, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Devil’s Apple (Solanum linnaeanum)

Devil’s Apple (Solanum linnaeanum), a nightshade from Southern Africa adopted into ornamental use on the strength of its radiant, toxic fruit. Traditionally called Apple of  …  Read the full post

False Sowthistle (<em>Reichardia tingitana</em>)

False Sowthistle (Reichardia tingitana)

Format ImagePosted on July 9, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on False Sowthistle (Reichardia tingitana)

False Sowthistle (Reichardia tingitana), a fancy, sand- and salt-loving yellow aster from the Mediterranean and Middle East. A plant of coastal dunes and saline deserts  …  Read the full post

Teasel (<em>Dipsacus fullonum</em>)

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

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Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum), a biennial Eurasian colonist of damp ground, introduced to Australia as a textile comb, grain contaminant and occasional ornamental and floriculture selection.  …  Read the full post

Common Thorn-apple (<em>Datura stramonium</em>)

Common Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium)

Format ImagePosted on April 24, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Common Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium)

Common Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium), a toxic annual member of the Nightshade family originating in C. America. Also known as the Devils Trumpet, as James Town  …  Read the full post

Stinkwort (<em>Dittrichia graveolens</em>)

Stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens)

Format ImagePosted on April 15, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens)

Stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens), an autumn-flowering annual aster with an aggressive aroma and Eurasian origin. Although the first Australian collection dates to 1876, Stinkwort was spreading  …  Read the full post

Trailing Snapdragon (<em>Asarina procumbens</em>)

Trailing Snapdragon (Asarina procumbens)

Format ImagePosted on March 5, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Trailing Snapdragon (Asarina procumbens)

Trailing Snapdragon (Asarina procumbens), a perennial snapdragon originating in the south of France where it grows in rock crevices. Broadly adopted as an ornamental selection,  …  Read the full post

Self-heal (<em>Prunella vulgaris</em>)

Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)

Format ImagePosted on March 3, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)

Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris), a Eurasian meadow mint turned cosmopolitan homesteader of temperate lawns and roadsides worldwide. Collected at Sydney as early as 1802, in those  …  Read the full post

Tree Tobacco (<em>Nicotiana glauca</em>)

Tree Tobacco (Nicotiana glauca)

Format ImagePosted on February 25, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Tree Tobacco (Nicotiana glauca)

Tree Tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), an Argentinian perennial related both to cultivated Tobacco and Australia’s native Nicotianas. Highly toxic, it was introduced to Australia as an  …  Read the full post

Green Cestrum (<em>Cestrum parqui</em>)

Green Cestrum (Cestrum parqui)

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Green Cestrum (Cestrum parqui), a toxic South American ornamental shrub that became a notorious killer of cattle in eastern Australia. Its seed is bird-distributed and  …  Read the full post

Yellow Glandweed (<em>Bellardia viscosa</em>)

Yellow Glandweed (Bellardia viscosa)

Format ImagePosted on January 17, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Yellow Glandweed (Bellardia viscosa)

Yellow Glandweed (Bellardia viscosa), a hemi-parasitic European broomrape spread to Australia in the late 19th century in contaminated grass seed. The species colonises paddocks, along  …  Read the full post

Cotton Fireweed (<em>Senecio quadridentatus</em>)

Cotton Fireweed (Senecio quadridentatus)

Format ImagePosted on January 15, 2020by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Cotton Fireweed (Senecio quadridentatus)

Cotton Fireweed (Senecio quadridentatus), a native Australian member of the genus demonstrating that its exotic cousins are not the only members of Senecio with capacity  …  Read the full post

African Thistle (<em>Berkheya rigida</em>)

African Thistle (Berkheya rigida)

Format ImagePosted on December 4, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on African Thistle (Berkheya rigida)

African Thistle (Berkheya rigida), a fantastically prickled perennial aster introduced to Australian ports (and apparently no other global destination) in the ballast of empty ships  …  Read the full post

Paterson’s Curse (<em>Echium plantagineum</em>)

Paterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum)

Format ImagePosted on November 13, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Paterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum)

Paterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum), a Western Mediterranean annual rendered iconic by the extent and impact of its Australian invasions. This colour out of space was  …  Read the full post

Horehound (<em>Marrubium vulgare</em>)

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)

Format ImagePosted on November 8, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare), a Eurasian medicinal herb and ubiquitous inland nuisance of grazed land and roadside throughout SE Australia. Unpalatable to sheep, with seed cases  …  Read the full post

Bluebell Creeper (<em>Billardiera fusiformis</em>)

Bluebell Creeper (Billardiera fusiformis)

Format ImagePosted on November 6, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Bluebell Creeper (Billardiera fusiformis)

Bluebell Creeper (Billardiera fusiformis), a Western Australian climbing shrub that has become a catastrophic success story following introduction to southeastern Australia as an ornamental native  …  Read the full post

Tobacco Nightshade (<em>Solanum mauritianum</em>)

Tobacco Nightshade (Solanum mauritianum)

Format ImagePosted on October 9, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Tobacco Nightshade (Solanum mauritianum)

Tobacco Nightshade (Solanum mauritianum), a South American shrub introduced to Australia as an ornamental selection, naturalised on that basis, and then distributed further as a  …  Read the full post

Laurestinus/Laurustinus (<em>Viburnum tinus</em>)

Laurestinus/Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus)

Format ImagePosted on October 2, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Laurestinus/Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus)

Laurestinus/Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus) growing as a novel component in the damaged understoreys of Yarra Bend. Laurustinus was a core component of the Victorian garden toolkit,  …  Read the full post

Wild Sage (<em>Salvia verbenaca</em>)

Wild Sage (Salvia verbenaca)

Format ImagePosted on September 19, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Wild Sage (Salvia verbenaca)

Wild Sage (Salvia verbenaca), a Mediterranean steppe perennial introduced to Australia as a casual medicinal herb and a likely contaminant of imported seed or stock.  …  Read the full post

Boneseed (<em>Chrysanthemoides monilfera ssp. monilifera</em>)

Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilfera ssp. monilifera)

Format ImagePosted on September 18, 2019by Weeds of Melbourne1 Comment on Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilfera ssp. monilifera)

Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilfera ssp. monilifera), this time profiling the presence of this invasive shrub aster in the inner metropolitan. The photographs here show the species  …  Read the full post

Boneseed (<em>Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera</em>)

Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera)

Format ImagePosted on September 13, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera)

Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera), a South African coastal shrub aster now more widespread in Australia and New Zealand than in its native range. Boneseed  …  Read the full post

Trailing African Daisy (<em>Dimorphotheca fruticosa</em>)

Trailing African Daisy (Dimorphotheca fruticosa)

Format ImagePosted on August 30, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Trailing African Daisy (Dimorphotheca fruticosa)

Trailing African Daisy (Dimorphotheca fruticosa), a showy South African aster that has springboarded back into ruderal ecology in an increasing number of Mediterranean climates around  …  Read the full post

Annual Saltmarsh Aster or Aster-weed (<em>Symphyotrichum subulatum</em>)

Annual Saltmarsh Aster or Aster-weed (Symphyotrichum subulatum)

Format ImagePosted on August 1, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Annual Saltmarsh Aster or Aster-weed (Symphyotrichum subulatum)

Annual Saltmarsh Aster or Aster-weed (Symphyotrichum subulatum), naturalised on brackish wetland areas, riparian banks, irrigation canals, and seasonally wet sites throughout Victoria. Native to saline  …  Read the full post

Climbing Groundsel (<em>Senecio angulatus</em>)

Climbing Groundsel (Senecio angulatus)

Format ImagePosted on July 10, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Climbing Groundsel (Senecio angulatus)

Climbing Groundsel (Senecio angulatus), another winter-flowering climbing aster from Southern Africa. Climbing varieties like this one were likely included in early horticultural imports of unidentified  …  Read the full post

Cape Ivy (<em>Delairea odorata</em>)

Cape Ivy (Delairea odorata)

Format ImagePosted on July 4, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Cape Ivy (Delairea odorata)

Cape Ivy (Delairea odorata), a sickly sweet smelling smotherer of fencelines, coastal dunes and riparian understoreys. An environmental weed known elsewhere as Ivy-leaved Groundsel, this  …  Read the full post

Garden Tomato (<em>Solanum lycopersicum</em>)

Garden Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Format ImagePosted on May 23, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Garden Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Garden Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) found fruiting this autumn in riparian positions on Edgar’s Creek in Reservoir and amidst the rockeries along the top of Treasury  …  Read the full post

Common Heliotrope or Potato Weed (<em>Heliotropium europaeum</em>)

Common Heliotrope or Potato Weed (Heliotropium europaeum)

Format ImagePosted on May 22, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Common Heliotrope or Potato Weed (Heliotropium europaeum)

Common Heliotrope or Potato Weed (Heliotropium europaeum), an accidental Eurasian import and major annual weed of southern Australia’s grain-growing regions, including the Victorian Mallee. Initially  …  Read the full post

South American Goldenrod (<em>Solidago chilensis</em>)

South American Goldenrod (Solidago chilensis)

Format ImagePosted on May 12, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on South American Goldenrod (Solidago chilensis)

South American Goldenrod (Solidago chilensis), a member of that prolific and striking lineage of predominantly Western Hemisphere asters, now established on suburban Melbourne streams. Goldenrods  …  Read the full post

Cobbler’s Pegs (<em>Bidens pilosa</em>)

Cobbler’s Pegs (Bidens pilosa)

Format ImagePosted on May 7, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Cobbler’s Pegs (Bidens pilosa)

Cobbler’s Pegs (Bidens pilosa), also known as Beggar’s Ticks, Farmer’s Friend, Blackjack, a cosmopolitan aster from the Americas that has been distributed globally, to the  …  Read the full post

Lion’s Tail (<em>Leonotis leonurus</em>)

Lion’s Tail (Leonotis leonurus)

Format ImagePosted on April 29, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Lion’s Tail (Leonotis leonurus)

Lion’s Tail (Leonotis leonurus), a spectacular Southern African member of the mint family. Brought to Australia as a garden ornamental (the species was available from  …  Read the full post

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