Buchan Weed (Hirschfeldia incana), one of the many yellow-flowered Eurasian mustards that haunt this country’s roads, paddocks and landscapes and are often best differentiated at … Read the full post
Twiggy Turnip (Brassica fruticulosa)
Twiggy Turnip (Brassica fruticulosa), an endemic mustard of the Western Mediterranean and recent introduction to Australia. Unlike Mediterranean Turnip (Brassica tournefortii), whose interwar arrival posed … Read the full post
Giant Mustard (Rapistrum rugosum)
Giant Mustard (Rapistrum rugosum), an upright European annual that in good conditions reaches heights of nearly 2 m. This ‘Short-fruited Wild Turnip’ has a growth … Read the full post
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale), a feet-wet Eurasian perennial introduced intentionally to Australia. Watercress had not found popularity on the English table at the time of the … Read the full post
Field Mustard (Brassica rapa)
Field Mustard (Brassica rapa), a yellow-flowering turnip sometimes grown as a fallow or forage crop. This plastic Eurasian species has formed the genetic base for … Read the full post
Lesser Swine’s Cress (Lepidium didymum)
Lesser Swine’s Cress (Lepidium didymum), a South American member of the mustard family introduced to Europe by early colonial transfers, and from there to Australia … Read the full post
Hoary Cress (Lepidium draba)
Hoary Cress (Lepidium draba), a Eurasian mustard globalised in the 1800s in contaminated seed and ship ballast. The first Australian infestation reportedly occurred at the … Read the full post
European Sea Rocket (Cakile maritima)
European Sea Rocket (Cakile maritima), a specialist of the coastal strand and a ballast weed delivered to Western Australia in the 1890s and to Victoria … Read the full post
Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima), growing in a novel and heavily sprayed weed ecology on the Jolimont railway embankments, alongside agaves, soursob and various weed grasses. … Read the full post
Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), one of the world’s most ubiquitous cosmopolitan weeds, presenting here in a truly exceptional infestation on unit pavers. Recorded in Victoria … Read the full post
Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)
Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) is a winter and spring-growing annual with somewhat unusual four-petaled flowers which vary in colour and venation. The species would have … Read the full post