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Bigleaf Hydrangea (<em>Hydrangea macrophylla</em>)

Bigleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)

Format ImagePosted on January 27, 2022by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Bigleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)

Bigleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla), the colour-changing Asian horticultural superstar, naturalised in damp forest situations around the world. While North American species were already known to  …  Read the full post

Winged Groundsel (<em>Senecio pterophorus</em>)

Winged Groundsel (Senecio pterophorus)

Format ImagePosted on January 18, 2022by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Winged Groundsel (Senecio pterophorus)

Winged Groundsel (Senecio pterophorus), a South African aster distributed internationally through contaminated wool, shipping ballast and other materials. Known commonly as African Daisy (as if  …  Read the full post

Southern Star (<em>Oxypetalum coeruleum</em>)

Southern Star (Oxypetalum coeruleum)

Format ImagePosted on January 17, 2022by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Southern Star (Oxypetalum coeruleum)

Southern Star (Oxypetalum coeruleum), a striking South American milkweed adopted into Victorian horticulture for its sky blue flowers. Indigenous to Uruguay and SE Brazil, the  …  Read the full post

Buchan Weed (<em>Hirschfeldia incana</em>)

Buchan Weed (Hirschfeldia incana)

Format ImagePosted on January 5, 2022by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Buchan Weed (Hirschfeldia incana)

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

South African Weed Orchid (<em>Disa bracteata</em>)

South African Weed Orchid (Disa bracteata)

Format ImagePosted on December 14, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on South African Weed Orchid (Disa bracteata)

South African Weed Orchid (Disa bracteata), not the orchid you want to find on your bush walks but increasingly prevalent across southern Australia. Endemic to  …  Read the full post

Twiggy Turnip (<em>Brassica fruticulosa</em>)

Twiggy Turnip (Brassica fruticulosa)

Format ImagePosted on October 23, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on 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 (<em>Rapistrum rugosum</em>)

Giant Mustard (Rapistrum rugosum)

Format ImagePosted on October 21, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on 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 (<em>Nasturtium officinale</em>)

Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)

Format ImagePosted on October 19, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on 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 (<em>Brassica rapa</em>)

Field Mustard (Brassica rapa)

Format ImagePosted on October 16, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on 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

Sharp Buttercup (<em>Ranunculus muricatus</em>)

Sharp Buttercup (Ranunculus muricatus)

Format ImagePosted on October 12, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Sharp Buttercup (Ranunculus muricatus)

Sharp Buttercup (Ranunculus muricatus), a southern European mainstay of damp verges and river muds. Included on the laundry list of common weeds proclaimed by the  …  Read the full post

One-leaf Cape Tulip (<em>Moraea flaccida</em>)

One-leaf Cape Tulip (Moraea flaccida)

Format ImagePosted on September 28, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on One-leaf Cape Tulip (Moraea flaccida)

One-leaf Cape Tulip (Moraea flaccida), another South African bulb more extensive in Australia than its home province. Just when One-leaf Tulip joined the two-leafed Moraea  …  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

Small-flowered Onion Grass (<em>Romulea minutiflora</em>)

Small-flowered Onion Grass (Romulea minutiflora)

Format ImagePosted on September 8, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Small-flowered Onion Grass (Romulea minutiflora)

Small-flowered Onion Grass (Romulea minutiflora), a minuscule cousin of the standard saccharine Onion Grass (R. rosea). Also originating in South Africa, the Small-flowered Onion Grass  …  Read the full post

Onion Grass (<em>Romulea rosea</em>)

Onion Grass (Romulea rosea)

Format ImagePosted on August 31, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Onion Grass (Romulea rosea)

Onion Grass (Romulea rosea), the ubiquitous magenta stars that adorn Melbourne’s springtime lawns. Onion Grass is a plant that requires many more than 2200 characters,  …  Read the full post

White Fumitory (<em>Fumaria capreolata</em>)

White Fumitory (Fumaria capreolata)

Format ImagePosted on August 26, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on White Fumitory (Fumaria capreolata)

White Fumitory (Fumaria capreolata), another of a genus of scrabbly annuals from Western Europe which infest the Melbourne springtime. Long treated as another variation of  …  Read the full post

Tall Fumitory (<em>Fumaria bastardii</em>)

Tall Fumitory (Fumaria bastardii)

Format ImagePosted on August 25, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Tall Fumitory (Fumaria bastardii)

Tall Fumitory (Fumaria bastardii), another from a group of familiar West European annuals which make themselves scrabbly nuisances of gardens, crops and damaged ground. A  …  Read the full post

Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (<em>Oxalis obtusa</em>)

Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa)

Format ImagePosted on August 24, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa)

Yellow-eye Wood Sorrel (Oxalis obtusa), another of Melbourne’s strikingly coloured infestations from South Africa’s Western Cape province and Namaqualand. A relative of the ubiquitous Soursob  …  Read the full post

Wall Fumitory (<em>Fumaria muralis</em>)

Wall Fumitory (Fumaria muralis)

Format ImagePosted on August 23, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Wall Fumitory (Fumaria muralis)

Wall Fumitory (Fumaria muralis), one of a group of West European annuals which make themselves scrabbly nuisances of gardens, crops and damaged ground. Perhaps mostly  …  Read the full post

Green Alkanet (<em>Pentaglottis sempervirens</em>)

Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens)

Format ImagePosted on August 19, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens)

Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), an evergreen perennial relative of Forget-me-nots, true Alkanet (Alkanna) and other members of the Borage family. The species is distinguishable from  …  Read the full post

Spanish Heath (<em>Erica lusitanica</em>)

Spanish Heath (Erica lusitanica)

Format ImagePosted on August 10, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Spanish Heath (Erica lusitanica)

Spanish Heath (Erica lusitanica), shining springtime fixture and prominent invader of Victoria’s acidic hill country. Introduced to England from Spain and Portugal at an early  …  Read the full post

Wood Forget-me-not (<em>Myosotis sylvatica</em>)

Wood Forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)

Format ImagePosted on July 23, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Wood Forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)

Wood Forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica), a member of a diminutive genus long prized for its free-seeding, wild character on neglected English country estates. Numerous temperate Forget-me-nots  …  Read the full post

Lesser Snapdragon (<em>Misopates orontium</em>)

Lesser Snapdragon (Misopates orontium)

Format ImagePosted on June 3, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Lesser Snapdragon (Misopates orontium)

Lesser Snapdragon (Misopates orontium), a minuscule Mediterranean annual naturalised across Europe and in similar climates around the world. Reportedly a weed of English cornfields, Lesser  …  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

Sicilian Sea Lavender (<em>Limonium hyblaeum</em>)

Sicilian Sea Lavender (Limonium hyblaeum)

Format ImagePosted on May 18, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Sicilian Sea Lavender (Limonium hyblaeum)

Sicilian Sea Lavender (Limonium hyblaeum), a cushion-forming endemic to Sicily’s rocky south-east coasts, only described as a separate species in 1980, by which time it  …  Read the full post

Narrow-leaved Cotton Bush (<em>Gomphocarpus fruticosus</em>)

Narrow-leaved Cotton Bush (Gomphocarpus fruticosus)

Format ImagePosted on March 30, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Narrow-leaved Cotton Bush (Gomphocarpus fruticosus)

Narrow-leaved Cotton Bush (Gomphocarpus fruticosus), a South African milkweed and accidental host for the Monarch (Wanderer) butterfly. Known here as Swan Plant (floated in water,  …  Read the full post

Peruvian Lily (<em>Alstroemeria aurea</em>)

Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria aurea)

Format ImagePosted on March 25, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria aurea)

Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria aurea), one of a group of tuberous flowering plants native to South America which have been widely adopted into horticulture and floriculture  …  Read the full post

Square-stalked St. John’s Wort (<em>Hypericum tetrapterum</em>)

Square-stalked St. John’s Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum)

Format ImagePosted on March 24, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Square-stalked St. John’s Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum)

Square-stalked St. John’s Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum), a moisture-loving wort (i.e. medicinal root) from Europe. This plant has also been known as St. Peter’s Wort, although  …  Read the full post

Prickly Paddy Melon (<em>Cucumis myriocarpus</em>)

Prickly Paddy Melon (Cucumis myriocarpus)

Format ImagePosted on March 19, 2021by Weeds of MelbourneLeave a comment on Prickly Paddy Melon (Cucumis myriocarpus)

Prickly Paddy Melon (Cucumis myriocarpus) a bitter Southern African cucumber producing a myriad of tiny fruit. von Mueller made the first Australian collection of Paddy Melon  …  Read the full post

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