Herbaceous Weeds - Bushlands Weeds and Native Look-Alikes

Sigesbeckia orientalis - Indian weed

Native

Dispersal: Seed - Attachment

Pallea falcata - Sickle fern

Native

Discolorous leaves, spores are a line around the edges of the leaf instead of the little dots in the fishbone fern.

Dispersal: Seed - Mud

Commelina cyanea - Commelina

Native

Longer internode than trad, thinner leaves (oblong to falcate)

Disperal: Spores - Wind

Tradescantia fluminensis - Trad

Weed

Dispersal: Fragmentation - dumping, water

Mature: Rake large infestations into piles, can spray if needed but could be frog habitat or near waterways

Juvenile: Hand pull smaller infestations

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Nepholepsis cordifolia - Fishbone fern

Weed

Dispersal: Spore - wind, dumping

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Hand pull, remove rhizomes

Follow-up: 3-6 months

Verbena spp. - Purple top

Weed

Dispersal: Seed - gravity, mud

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Cut and paint

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Sida rhombifolia - Paddy’s lucerne

Weed

Dispersal: gravity, mud

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: De-seed, then cut and paint

Follow-up: 3-6 months

Conyza spp. - Fleabane

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Deseed, then cut and paint

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Senecio madagascariensis - Fireweed

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Deseed, deflower, and hand pull

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Bidens pilosa - Bidens

Weed

Dispersal: attachment

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Deseed and hand pull

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Hypochoeris radicata - Catsear

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile: Hand pull

Mature: Deseed, hand pull or spot-spray

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Parietaria judaica - Asthma weed

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile and Mature: Hand pull

Mature: Spray

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Bryophyllum delagoense - Mother-of-millions

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile: Hand pull and remove as many fragments as possible

Mature: Hand pull and remove as many seeds and fragments as possible

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Lilium formosum - Formosan lily

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile: Dig out

Mature: Deflower, deseed, dig out bulb and bulblets. Cut & paint after flowering season

Follow-up: 12 months

Crocosmia x crocosmiifolia - Montbretia

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile and mature: Hand pull, remove corms

Mature: Leaf wipe with glyphosate

Follow-up: 3-6 months

Plantago lanceolata - Lamb’s tongues, plantain

Weed

Dispersal: Wind

Juvenile: Hand pull, can use trowel to ease out taproot

Mature: Remove seeds and flowers and bag

Follow-up: 1-3 months

Hydrocotyle bonariensis - Pennywort

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile and Mature: Dig out and remove underground nodes

Mature: Leaf wipe

Follow-up: 1 month

Dietes spp. - African iris

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile: Crown out

Mature: Remove seeds, crown out. Can cut and spray.

Follow-up: 6 months

Chlorophytum comosum - Spider plant

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile: Dig out

Mature: Remove plantlets and crown out rhizome

Juvenile: Crown

Follow-up: 6-12 months

Asparagus plumosus - Climbing asparagus fern

Weed

Dispersal: Birds

Juvenile: Crown out rhizome

Mature: Scrape and paint

Follow-up: 6-12 months

Asparagus asparagoides - Bridal creeper

Weed

Dispersal: Birds

Juvenile or mature: Crown out rhizome

Juvenile or mature: Leave specimens infected with rust on site

Follow-up: 12 months

Asparagus aethiopicus - Asparagus fern

Weed

Dispersal: Birds

Juvenile: Crown out rhizome

Mature: Remove fruit, crown out rhizome

Follow-up: 6-12 months

Watsonia meriana - Watsonia

Weed

Dispersal: Dumping

Juvenile and mature: Remove flower heads, dig out corms

Mature: Leaf wiping after flowering

Follow-up: 6 months

Lomandra longifolia - Spiny-headed mat-rush

Native

Dispersal: Birds