Wards Weed: Dried Seed

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Mustards & Allies (Brassicales)

Family:

Mustard (Brassicaceae or Cruciferae)

Species:

Wards Weed (Carrichtera annua)

This Photo:

Dried Seed

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Invasive throughout the region. Difficult to eradicate as it's in such hugh numbers. The areas we have weeded have shown a big return of native forbs.
Seedlings are purple before turning luscious green.
Grazed by wombats & roos.
Replaces native grass.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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