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Weed species information

Profiles for a number of weeds that are important in NSW are available below. Each weed profile contains a photograph, description, the status of the weed and links to related information, such as Primefacts.


Skip to species beginning with:

    A - D

    • African boxthorn
    • African feather grass
    • African lovegrass
    • African olive
    • African turnip weed
    • Aleman grass
    • Alligator weed
    • Anchored water hyacinth
    • Annual ragweed
    • Arrowhead (includes sagittaria)
    • Artichoke thistle
    • Asparagus fern
    • Athel pine
    • Balloon vine
    • Barleria
    • Bathurst burr
    • Bear-skin fescue
    • Bellyache bush
    • Bitou bush
    • Blackberry
    • Blue heliotrope
    • Blue hound's tongue
    • Boneseed
    • Bracken fern
    • Bridal creeper
    • Broad-leaf pepper tree
    • Broomrapes
    • Buffalo burr
    • Burr ragweed
    • Cabomba
    • Californian burr
    • Caltrop and yellow vine
    • Camel thorn
    • Camphor laurel
    • Cane needle grass
    • Cape broom
    • Cape ivy
    • Castor oil plant
    • Cat's claw creeper
    • Chilean needle grass
    • Chinese celtis
    • Chinese rain tree
    • Chinese violet
    • Cineraria
    • Climbing asparagus fern
    • Clockweed
    • Cockspur coral tree
    • Common heliotrope
    • Coolatai grass
    • Crofton weed
    • Cutch tree
    • Cyperus
    • Devil's claw (yellow-flowered)
    • Devil’s claw (purple-flowered)
    • Dodders
    • E - K

      • East Indian hygrophila
      • Eurasian water milfoil
      • False yellowhead
      • Fireweed
      • Fountain grass
      • Galvanised burr and black roly-poly
      • Gamba grass
      • Geranium
      • Giant Parramatta grass
      • Giant rat’s tail grass
      • Giant reed/Elephant grass
      • Glory lily
      • Golden dodder
      • Golden thistle
      • Gorse & Brooms
      • Green cestrum
      • Groundsel bush
      • Harrisia cactus
      • Hawkweed
      • Heather
      • Hemlock
      • Heteranthera
      • Holly leaved senecio
      • Horsetails
      • Hudson pear
      • Hydrocotyl
      • Hygrophila
      • Hymenachne
      • Johnson grass
      • Karroo thorn
      • Knapweed
      • Kochia
      • Kudzu
      • L - P

        • Lagarosiphon
        • Lantana
        • Laurel clock vine
        • Leaf cactus
        • Leafy elodea
        • Lippia
        • Lobed needle grass
        • Long-leaf willow primrose
        • Long-style feather grass
        • Madeira vine
        • Mesquite
        • Mexican feather grass
        • Mexican poppy
        • Miconia
        • Mimosa
        • Mother of millions
        • Muskweed
        • Nodding thistle
        • Noogoora burr
        • Pampas grass
        • Parkinsonia
        • Parthenium weed
        • Paterson's curse
        • Pond apple
        • Praxelis
        • Prickly acacia
        • Prickly pear
        • Privet – broad-leaf, small-leaf and European
        • R - Z

          • Rhus
          • Rosewood
          • Rubber vine
          • Saffron thistle
          • Sagittaria (includes arrowhead)
          • Salvinia
          • Scotch broom
          • Scotch, Illyrian and stemless thistles
          • Senegal tea plant
          • Serrated tussock - Identification and Control
          • Siam weed
          • Sifton bush
          • Silverleaf nightshade
          • Spiny burrgrass
          • Spiny emex
          • St John's wort
          • Subterranean cape sedge
          • Sweet briar
          • Tree of heaven
          • Tropical soda apple
          • Uruguayan rice grass
          • Water caltrop
          • Water hyacinth
          • Water lettuce
          • Water pennywort
          • Water soldier
          • White Spanish broom
          • White weeping broom
          • Willow
          • Witchgrass
          • Witchweed
          • Yellow burrhead
          • Yellow soldier
          • Yellow vine

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          • Publications: includes weed management information, identification guides and other publications.

          Can't find what you're looking for?

          For more weeds, try:

          1. Declared noxious weeds database: Search this database for information about weeds that are declared in NSW under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. The information provided includes the control class and the control requirements for each species declared in a Local Control Area.

           

          2. Weeds Australia for information about a specific weed not listed on the left.

          Weed control advice

          Information about weed control can be found in the Noxious and environmental weed control handbook. A form is provided for questions that are not answered in the handbook.


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