Making it easier by first making it harder

Follow up of weedy grasses

3-6 months except pampas (6-12 months) and couch, ehrharta and African lovegrass (1-3 months)

Follow up of herbaceous dicots

1-3 months, except mother of millions, St Johns wort and Paddy’s Lucerne (3-6 months) and spear thistle (6-12 months)

Follow up of vines

1-3 months, except blackberry, 6-12

Follow up of woody weeds

6-12 months

Follow up of herbaceous monocots

1-3 months, except asparagus, bridal creeper and umbrella sedge (3-6 months), and lillies, agapanthus and spider (6-12 months)

Dispersal of woody weeds

bird, except radiata pine (wind), cootamundra wattle and broom (ants), Spanish heath (gravity)

Dispersal of herbaceous monocots

If it’s fleshy, it’s bird dispersed. Formosan Lily and agapanthus are wind dispersed, as are grasses. Trad is fragments. Spider is plantlets. Umbrella is gravity.

Dispersal of herbaceous dicots

Wind, except bidens, St Johns wort, and sida (attachment), creeping buttercup (water), mother of millions (plantlets), and plantago, turkey thubarb, purple top and coreopsis (gravity).

Dispersal of weedy grasses

Gravity except for Pampas, whiskey and coolatai (wind), paspalum (attachment), Rhodes grass (stolons) and Kikuyu and couch (rhizomes AND stolons)

Treatment of herbaceous dicots

Hand pull or spray, except Turkey rhubarb (trowel and spray), and coreopsis, plantago and St John’s Wort (crown and spray)

Treatment of vines

Hand weed juveniles, scrape and paint or spray older. Trowel Maderia vine (tubers) and Japanese honeysuckle, cut and paint moth vine

Treatment of asparagus

Crown and strong spray. 3-6 months

Treatment and dispersal of ferns

Fishbone only! Spores and rhizomes. Handpull or strong spray. 3-6 months

Treatment of weedy grasses

Crown or spray except Kikuyu and couch, slash and spray or knot and paint

Treatment of woody weeds

Hand pull juveniles, cut and paint, stem inject very large. Scrape and paint Ochna, African Olive and camphor laurel. Trowel out or stem inject campor laurel. Do not paint radiata pine.

Treatment of herbaceous monocots

Crown and spray

Dispersal of vines

Madeira is vegetative tubers, morning glory vegetative fragments, mothvine and cats claw are wind, balloon vine water. Japanese honeysuckle is birds AND stolons and rhizones. Others are bird dispersed.