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Compiling a visual glossary of the weedy heritage of Melbourne, Australia.
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Sky Lupine (<em>Lupinus ?nanus</em>)

Sky Lupine (Lupinus ?nanus)

Format ImagePosted on November 21, 2022by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Sky Lupine (Lupinus ?nanus)

Sky Lupine (Lupinus ?nanus), a tiny Californian lupine growing within incipient rip rap foothills meadow at Melbourne’s Cardinia Reservoir and apparently nowhere else in Australia.  …  Read the full post

Hop Clover (<em>Trifolium campestre</em>)

Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre)

Format ImagePosted on September 23, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre)

Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre), another Eurasian legume introduced to Australia from the early years of the invasion in contaminated seed of other imported forage. The  …  Read the full post

Sweet Melilot (<em>Melilotus indicus</em>)

Sweet Melilot (Melilotus indicus)

Format ImagePosted on September 20, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Sweet Melilot (Melilotus indicus)

Sweet Melilot (Melilotus indicus), an aromatic Eurasian legume introduced as a pasture improver and seed contaminant. Equally useful and disastrous but lacking the technicolor calamity  …  Read the full post

Tiny Vetch (<em>Vicia hirsuta</em>)

Tiny Vetch (Vicia hirsuta)

Format ImagePosted on September 16, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Tiny Vetch (Vicia hirsuta)

Tiny Vetch (Vicia hirsuta), a miniature Eurasian and African annual introduced to Australia as fodder crop or seed contaminant. In the 1864 Flora australiensis, Kew  …  Read the full post

Cretan Trefoil (<em>Lotus creticus</em>)

Cretan Trefoil (Lotus creticus)

Format ImagePosted on May 28, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Cretan Trefoil (Lotus creticus)

Cretan Trefoil (Lotus creticus), a silvery, silken-leaved denizen of the Mediterranean strand, lately translocated to Melbourne’s exurban vacation dunes. Other than a scattering of more  …  Read the full post

Cape Wattle (<em>Paraserianthes lophantha</em>)

Cape Wattle (Paraserianthes lophantha)

Format ImagePosted on August 8, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Cape Wattle (Paraserianthes lophantha)

Cape Wattle (Paraserianthes lophantha), a Western Australian relative of Acacia that has been distributed in European cultivation across the rest of the continent. Widely purported  …  Read the full post

Gorse (<em>Ulex europaeus</em>)

Gorse (Ulex europaeus)

Format ImagePosted on June 23, 2019by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Gorse (Ulex europaeus)

Gorse (Ulex europaeus), brilliant with golden spangles, Western European nitrogen-fixer and destroyer of worlds. Furnishing a fresh fodder for stock (palatable once milled of its  …  Read the full post

Dolichos Pea (<em>Dipogon lignosus</em>)

Dolichos Pea (Dipogon lignosus)

Format ImagePosted on October 18, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Dolichos Pea (Dipogon lignosus)

Dolichos Pea (Dipogon lignosus), another plant brought from the Cape Colony that is now a permanent part of the landscape of Melbourne and Victoria. Sold  …  Read the full post

Tree Lucerne (<em>Cytisus proliferus</em>)

Tree Lucerne (Cytisus proliferus)

Format ImagePosted on September 4, 2018by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Tree Lucerne (Cytisus proliferus)

Tree Lucerne (Cytisus proliferus), a nefarious shrub brought to Australia as a fodder plant from the Canary Islands, and also sold in Melbourne from 1882  …  Read the full post

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