Weeds

Ryegrass, Lolium spp. - is an important grass species in agriculture and landscaping and is generally managed for its forage or turf value rather than being targeted for control as an invasive spec...

Creeping Indigo is a herbaceous plant with thick stems and crawling taproot systems. Its appearance is often confused with common clover with its simplified leaf structure. It sprouts small pink o...

Culms (stems) of the ‘Poa annua’ plant can be up to 30cm if left unmown. The soft, narrowly linear, flat, smooth leaves are up to 3.5 mm wide. Foliage is often lime green in colour for the annual ...

Summer Grass is a common weed in Australia’s lawns and gardens, as well as, invading bushland in many regions. It is a very fast growing weed which sends out its shoots in all directions from it’s...

An upright and tufted long-lived grass with wiry flowering stems usually growing 15-50 cm tall. Its long and narrow leaf blades (6-40cm long and 1-4mm wide) may be flat or somewhat rolled. Its se...

Guildford grass AKA Onion grass is a small perennial, with tough grass like leaves up to 30cm high and 1-2mm wide, with blunt edges and prominent midrib. It produces a small brown underground corm...

A grass-like plant with long underground runners and upright flowering stems up to 40cm tall. Its upright stems are three-angled in cross-section. Its bright green leaves (1-3mm wide) are hairles...

This mat-forming plant spreads across the ground surface like many other turf grasses. It produces thick, fibrous stems that are held flush with the soil surface. Leaves and deep fibrous roots ar...