Weeds Identification (PDF, 13MB, new window) - Manningham City ...
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Spanish Heath<br />
Erica lusitanica<br />
Status:<br />
Very serious environmental weed<br />
Found in moist sites, shaded slopes<br />
Features: An erect shrub to 3m high. Small, fine<br />
hairless and crowded leaves. Numerous white<br />
flowers with pink–tinged buds. Anther lobes dark<br />
purple. Flowers in winter.<br />
Dispersal: Small pepper–like seed spread by wind<br />
and dumping of plants containing seeds. Slashing<br />
encourages regrowth and suckering.<br />
Similar local native plants: Epacris impressa<br />
(Common Heath), Cassinia arcuata (Drooping<br />
Cassinia), Dillwynia cinerascens (Grey Parrot-pea).<br />
Control:<br />
St Peter’s Wort<br />
(Square-stem St John’s Wort)<br />
Hypericum tetrapterum<br />
Status:<br />
NOXIOUS<br />
Regionally prohibited<br />
Very serious environmental weed<br />
Found in moist sites, gullies and streams<br />
Features: Erect herb or soft wooded subshrub to<br />
1m with square stems. Broad ovate green leaves<br />
with distinctive veins. Leaf bases hug the stems.<br />
Clusters of yellow flowers with brown capsule fruit.<br />
Dispersal: By seed and runners along drainage<br />
lines and waterways.<br />
Warning: Poisonous to stock.<br />
Control:<br />
Small to Medium Shrubs<br />
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