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

Serrated Tussock
Nassella trichotoma
Status:
Weed of National Significance
NOXIOUS
Regionally controlled
Very serious environmental weed
Very serious pasture weed
Features: Dense tussock to 50cm with distinctively
serrated leaves. (Feel fine serrations by running
fingers down edges of leaves.) Green leaves during
summer and yellow–green in winter. New growth is
upright initially but weeps at maturity. Leaves are
white at the base. Purplish, abundant open seed
heads in summer.
Dispersal: Seeds are spread by wind and in
contaminated soil, hay, basalt boulders used in
landscaping and on machinery. Can be transported
on the fur of animals or clothing.
Control:
Rat’s-tail Fescues
Vulpia bromoides, Vulpia myuros
Status:
Environmental weed
Features: Fine, erect annual grasses between
1 – 20cm tall, often with red/purplish base and
nodes. Flowerhead is very finely bristly (one sided in
Vulpia bromoides), erect or slightly drooping. Plants
germinate, flower and set seed very quickly in dry
open areas. Numerous fine plants can form a dense
mat.
Dispersal: Seeds spread by wind, water and
slashing.
Similar local native plants: Austrodanthonia
species (Wallaby–grasses).
Control:
Grasses and Sedges
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