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Weed Name
(Scientific Name)
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Description
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Control Recommendations
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Picture
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Azolla
(Azolla pinnata)
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Native of Australia
A floating perennial ferm 1-3cm long, pinnately branched
Often forms a carpet on the surface of slow moving or stagnant water
Leaves alternate, deeply two lobed
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Bachelors Button
(Cotula australis)
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A native of Australia
A small slender herb with carrot like leaves
Flower heads terminal, solitary, greenish-white, on slender leafless erect penduncles
Stems much branched and trailing often taking root near the base and becoming more erect
Wide spread and common in moist, shady habitats
Often mistaken for bindii
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Bindii
(Solvia pterosperma)
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Prostrate mat forming habit
Bright green, delicate (carrot like) leaves
Flower heads slightly conves. sessile in rosette, centres forming burrs with short spines
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Monument (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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Burr Medic
(Medicago denticulata)
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Native to Europe
An annual with small trifoliate leaves, light green leaflets elliptical, toothed and serrated
Top leaflet has a longer petiole than the other two
Axillary stiples deeping toothed
Flowers are small, pea-like, yellow solitary clusters on thin annsillary stems
Not stoloniferious but produces a fine, thick mat with hooked burrs present on stems (seed pods)
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Cape Weed
(Arctotheca calendula)
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Large gairy grey/green leaves forming open rosette up to 80cm x 30cm
Yellow flowers with dark centre
Strong root system
Heavy seed production
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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Cats Ear
(Hypochoeris radicata)
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Long leaves with deep lobes forming a flat rosette
Flowers yellow on a lengthy often branched floral stem
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Broadside (POST)
MetharTri Kombi (POST)
Silverado (POST)
Turf Control (POST
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Chickweed
(Stellaria medica)
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Soft, low growing plant (herbaceous)
Light green, soft leaves, broader at base forming slightly pointed tip
Small white flower
Mouse weared chickweed is hairy
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Broadside (POST)
Dimension (PRE)
Embargo (PRE)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Smackdown (POST)
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Crowsfoot Grass
(Eleusine indica)
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Tuft forming grass
Produces stolons at nodes of runners
Soft, hairy leaves
5-8 spikes per inflorescence with are 4 - 15 cm long
Bigger than Goose Grass (Eleusine tristachya)
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Barricade (PRE)
Dimension (PRE)
Enbargo (PRE)
Rifle 440 (PRE)
Ronstar (PRE)
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Cudweed
(Gnaphalium sphaericum)
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Rosette forming with leaves grey/green on top and whitish/grey underneath
Furry leaf underside
Upright flower stem with brown papery flowers
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Silverado (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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Dandelion
(Taraxacum officinale)
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Rosette forming with bright green sharply lobed leaves - lobes point backwards
Yellow daisy like flowers forming sphere shaped seed head - fine hairs attached
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Silverado (POST)
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Fleabane
(Conzya spp)
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Small compact rosette when young quickly becoming upright and varied in height if not mown
Main stem branching near top forming panicle of white/cream flowers
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
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Flickweed
(Cardamine hirsute)
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Small soft herbaceous plant with pinnate leaves and small white flowers
Explosive rod shaped fruits
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
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Goose Grass
(Eleusine tristachya)
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Smooth, hairless flattened leaves and stems
2-4 spikes per inflorescence which are 1-3cms long which run in two rows alongone side of the stem
Stems have a knee-like bend
Smaller than Crowsfoot grass
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Contact your turf representative
for control options
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Guildford Grass
(Romulea rosea)
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3-10 strap like leaves to 30cm long
Pink/purple, 6 petalled flowers with yellow throat on stem that slowly lengthens
Annual above ground growth - persistant bulbs
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Destiny (POST)
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Kidney Weed
(Dichondra repens)
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Native to Australia
A stoloniferous perennial herb rooting at the nodes.
Leaves round kidney shaped on long petioles
Flowers yellow or white
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Lambs Tounge
(Plantago lanceolata)
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Rosette forming with parrallel leaf venation
Flowers singularly on tip of lengthy stem
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Silverado (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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Mullimbimby Couch
(Cyperus brevifolius)
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Grass like plant with shallow rhizomes
Triangular shiny stems supporting hairless glossy green leaves
3 leaf bract sitting below tufty inflorescence
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DSMA (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Monument (POST)
Passtox (POST)
Sempra (POST)
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Nut Grass
(Cyperus rotundus)
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Sedge with glossy green linear leaves
Triangular stems supporting brown spike infloresence that has 2-4 bracts below
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DSMA (POST)
Sempra (POST)
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Onion Weed
(Nothoscordum inodorum)
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Strap like glaucus (grey/green) leaves - release distinctive onion smell is crushed
Multiple white flowers with papery bracts on top of stems
Black seeds
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Destiny (POST)
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Oxalis - Creeping
(Oxalis spp)
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Heart shaped leaves and 5 petalled yellow flowers
Creeping stems take root at nodes and spread efficently
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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Paspalum
(Paspalum dilatatum)
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Hairless tufted grass with noticible fold along mid rib
Flowers are multiple spikes that hold stick black seeds
Strong stolons and rhizomes
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DSMA (POST)
Passtox (POST)
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Pennyweed
(Hydrocotyle tripartite)
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Native of Australia
A perennial with creeping prostrate stolons and rhizomes which root at the nodes
The leaves are divided to the petiole
Flowers are sessile, greenish-yellow and inconspicuous
Often found in sheltered, moist soils
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Pennywort
(Hydrocotyle bonariensis)
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Perennial weed common in damp areas
Creeping habit taking root at nodes
Leaves like umbrellas attached to a petiole in the middle of the underside
Small, white flowers in clusters on stalks
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Pig Weed
(Portulaca oleracea)
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A succulent prostrate summer annual with reddish borwn stems
Leaves shiny oblate to wedge shaped 1-2cm long.
Flowers yellow, solitary to clusters in the leaf axles
A common weed occuring throughout Australia in cultivated soils of high rainfall
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Pink Oxalis
(Oxalis corymbosa)
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Clump forming habit supporting heart shaped dark green leaves
Bulbs (with bulblets) below ground
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Ronstar (PRE)
Turf Control (POST)
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Prairie Grass
(Bromus catharticus)
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A densely tufted short-lived perennial grass with hairy lower leaf sheaths
Leaf blades hairless and often rough to touch
Inflorescence a pannicle which tends to droop, with flattened spikelets
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Salvinia
(Salvina molesta)
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A free floating aquatic weed up to 30cm long
Leaves covered in dense hairs in whorls of three, teh upper two folded and the lower divided and root-like
It can smother large areas of water causing major problems to other plants, aquatic animals and pumps
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Shepherds Purse
(Capsella bursa-pastoris)
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Small rosette when young developing a strong central leader
Leaves resemble small heart shaped purses
Flowers are white, 2.5mm and in clusters
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
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Sow Thistle
(Sonchus olerachus)
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Upright hollow stems that are streaked red/green
Irregular shaped leaves with serrate margin
Yellow, daisy like flowers
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
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Summer Grass
(Digitaria sanguinalis)
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Spreading habit using stolons
Red/green stems
Soft grey/green hairy leaves
Flower spikes attached to main stem at various points
Vigerous spring grower
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Barricade (PRE)
Daconate (POST)
Dimension (PRE)
DSMA (POST)
Embargo (PRE)
Rifle 440 (PRE)
Passtox (POST)
Ronstar (PRE)
Smackdown (POST)
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White Clover
(Trifolium repens)
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Oval to elliptical leaves of variable size
Ball type inflorecence usually white
Deep resilient root system
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Monument (POST)
Silverado (POST)
Smackdown (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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White Root Lobelia
(Pratia purpurascens)
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A perennial with very strong stolons and with many white rhizomes
The rhizomes produce deep tap roots at each node
The leaves are small, narrow, elliptical, toothed and held closely to the stem
The leaves are dark green above and purple coloured beneath
Flowers are very small and tubular on fine axillary stems
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Winter Grass
(Poa annua)
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Low growing clump forming grass
Bright green/lime green leaves
Panicle inflorescence
Active growth through cooler months
Tolerates close mowing
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Barricade (PRE)
Brek (PRE+POST)
Colliseum (POST)
Dimension (PRE)
Embargo (PRE)
Propyzamide (PRE+POST)
Monument (POST)
Rifle 440 (PRE)
Ronstar (PRE)
Smackdown (POST)
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Wireweed
(Polygonum aviculare)
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Annual or biennial
Spawling habit with wiry, stuff, hairless stems
White to pink 2mm flowers
Strong taproot
Rapid growth in spring to summer
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Broadside (POST)
Kamba M (POST)
Methar Tri Kombi (POST)
Turf Control (POST)
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