Miniature Lupine (Lupinus ?bicolor), 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 (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 (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 (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 (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
Myrtle-leaf Milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia)
Myrtle-leaf Milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), a South African ornamental shrub and one of several dominant weeds in residential scrub around Port Phillip Bay, and on Mornington … Read the full post
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 (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 (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 (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