WEEDS TO WHACK

Habit: A ligneous (woody) vine that can reach from 2.5 meters to up to 8 meters. Found in thickets or secondary forests of the Philippines, India and Malaysia. It has since been cultivated and naturalized in tropical areas, usually dispersed by water. One...

Habit: Native to South America, White-flowered Wandering Jew is a plant from the same family as the native Commelina diffusa, and quite similar to it, except that it has glossy leaves and white flowers, whereas the native Wandering Jew has less glossy,...

Habit: Japanese Sunflower is not a native of Japan or anywhere near it — it is in fact a native of Central America. It is a tall robust annual herb with erect stems forming bushes to 3m high. Common along roadsides, creeks, embankments and neglected...

Image: Habit Originally from South Africa, Black-eyed Susan escapes from Queensland and New South Wales gardens. It is a weed in several countries around the world. The name refers to the bright yellow-orange flowers, which have a contrasting black centre....

Image: Habit Since it was first found growing in a drain in Toowong last year, this plant has popped up in several new locations around Brisbane including in Ithaca Creek and Enoggera Creek. Thalia is an aquatic, upright, emergent perennial with 1m long...

Cape Honeysuckle is a sprawling, rampant, sometimes vine-like, shrub with evergreen, opposite, pinnately compound leaves. Throughout Autumn and winter Cape Honeysuckle produces clusters of brilliant red-orange to scarlet tubular flowers. If left to...

Image: Flowers and foliage Yellow Bells is a shrub or small tree reaching up to 5 m native to Central and South America. A fast growing, fast spreading weed of creeks and roadsides that colonises by means of wind-borne seeds. Leaves compound with up to 3...

Image: Flower A short-lived perennial herb which develops a rosette of leaves and a deep tap-root, native to Europe. A widespread and common weed of lawns, roadsides, neglected areas and sometimes pastures and cultivation. Leaves are somewhat saw-toothed in...

Image: Leaves, habit Talinum paniculatum, the Jewels of Opar, is a succulent subshrub native to North America and Central America. It bears tuberous roots and panicles of flowers. (Wikipedia) Plants to 15 cm in moist to most habitats, Native of Southern...

Image: on tree Syngonium spp, or Arrowhead Vine, is a perennial vine native from Mexico to Panama. In the juvenile form, most of the leaves are sagittate (shaped like an arrowhead), to subhastate, to hastate (shaped like a spear head) in form. Leaves will...

Image: Habit Erect, perennial herb, or subshrub to 1 m high. Branches 4-angled, not hairy. This is a new and emerging weed becoming very widespread throughout Enoggera Creek. Widely cultivated as an ornamental plant throughout the tropics and as an indoor...

A coarse perennial herb from tropical America in the same family as Lantana. Usually 8-20 dm tall, sometimes woody toward base. Stems usually weakly erect. Leaves opposite, 4-8 cm long, upper surface rough, margins serrate. Tubed flowers usually dark purplish blue...

Known also as Porterweed, White Snakeweed is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America to Peru and Argentina. It is widely naturalised in North Queensland and north-western parts of the Northern Territory and occasionally naturalised in...

Habit African tulip tree is a large, uprighr and spreading tree to 25 m. It has escaped from gardens and can now be seen along most creek banks in the Enoggera catchment. The thick branches are marked with lenticels (breathing pores). Young branches can...

Habit: Herbacious plant with hollow stems that exude a white sap if broken. Leaves are bluish-green in colour with irregularly toothed margins. Leaves at the base of the plant are bigger than those higher up. Leaf bases are extended to clasp the stem....