The following weed and pest species pose significant threat to ACT's plants, animals and fungi. They are capable of invading and degrading native ecosystems. They are yet to become well established either in ACT as a whole or in particular parts of the Territory. Early detection of new outbreaks will help us eradicate these plants or pests from the ACT or key habitats.
ACT Parks and the Molonglo Conservation Group want people to check their gardens, suburbs and reserves for new and emerging invasive plant species (nasty weeds list on the Canberra Nature Map web site), that are spreading into nature reserves and waterways where they will disrupt our native plant communities and ecosystems.
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New and emerging invasive plants in the ACT source: ArcGIS Collector app, Canberra Nature Map, Atlas of Living Australia, National Herbarium |
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Botanical name |
Common name |
Alternanthera philoxeroides |
Alligator weed |
Anisodontea scabrosa |
Sandrose Mallow |
Anredera cordifolia |
Madeira Vine |
Araujia sericifera |
Moth Plant |
Asparagus asparagoides |
Bridal Creeper |
Calystegia silvatica |
Greater Bindweed |
Cenchrus longisetus |
Feathertop |
Cenchrus longispinus |
Spiny Burr Grass |
Cenchrus macrourus |
African Feather Grass |
Cenchrus setaceus |
Fountain Grass |
Centaurea stoebe |
Spotted Knapweed |
Cortaderia jubata |
Pink Pampas Grass |
Cylindropuntia spp |
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Cylindropuntia pallida |
Hudson Pear |
Epilobium hirsutum |
Great Willowherb |
Erica lusitanica |
Spanish Heath |
Hyparrhenia hirta |
Coolatai Grass |
Lavandula stoechas |
Spanish lavender |
Leucanthemum maximum |
Shasta Daisy |
Leucanthemum vulgare |
Ox-eye Daisy |
Limnobium laevigatum |
Amazon Frogbit |
Limnobium spongia |
American Frogbit |
Miscanthus sinensis |
Eulalia |
Myriophyllum aquaticum |
Parrot's Feather |
Nassella tenuissima |
Mexican Feathergrass |
Oenothera lindheimeri |
Clockweed |
Opuntia decumbens |
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Opuntia schickendantzii |
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Opuntia stricta |
Common Prickly Pear |
Parthenium hysterophorus |
Parthenium |
Pennisetum macrourum |
African Feather Grass |
Pennisetum setaceum |
Fountain Grass |
Pilosella aurantiaca |
Orange Hawkweed |
Pilosella officinarum |
Mouse-ear Hawkweed |
Pistia stratiotes |
Water Lettuce |
Reynoutria sachalinensis |
Giant Knotweed |
Rumex sagittatus |
Rambling Dock |
Sagittaria platyphylla |
Delta Arrowhead |
Salvinia molesta |
Salvinia |
Senecio madagascariensis |
Fireweed |
Sporobolus fertilis |
Giant Parramatta Grass |
Tephrosia grandiflora Grand |
Hoary pea |