Weeds Identification (PDF, 13MB, new window) - Manningham City ...

Kikuyu Grass
Pennisetum clandestinum
Status:
Serious environmental weed
Garden escape
Features: Coarse, matted perennial with long
rhizomes and stout, vigorous, much branching
stolons. Able to climb up fences and poles etc.
Bright green leaves. Flowers are inconspicuous.
Dispersal: Regrows readily from small pieces, after
cutting or soil disturbance. Spreads from planted
lawns and dumped garden waste.
Control:
Large Quaking-grass
Briza maxima
Status:
Very serious environmental weed
Tolerates very dry areas
Features: Upright annual grass 5 – 60 cm high.
Weeping branchlets, small shell-like husks in early
spring. Serious invader of native vegetation, where
it occupies the intertussock spaces, outcompeting
wildflowers and orchids and preventing germination
of indigenous species.
Dispersal: Seed is carried by wind, water and
animals.
Control:
Grasses and Sedges
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