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Gazania weed

Gazania

Gazania linearis / rigens

Tough, low-growing clump forming perennial herb with a short branched woody rhizome (spreading underground stem) and variable, lance-shaped or lobed leaves, 5-18 cm long, 0.3-2 cm wide, dark green
above, white-woolly below.

Flowers are brightly coloured, large, bronze, yellow and orange daisy-like to 8 cm in diameter all year round. Naturalised on coastal dunes and along some roadsides.

Threat / Problem
• Forms dense patches in disturbed areas of coastal sands and dunes and displaces native vegetation. It withstands salt-laden winds and grows vigorously in sandy soils.

Spread
• Reproduces vegetatively and from seed. It produces abundant wind-blown seeds and is often spread in garden waste and through soil movement.

Control
• Hand pull small plants and dig out larger plants ensuring all root fragments are removed.
• Chemical control can be effective. Resistant to Glyphosate®
herbicide but susceptible to Lontrel®.

Gazania weed

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Pleated Podolepis

Pleated Podolepis

Podolepis rugata

Perennial herb to 0.8 m high with several erect, unbranched, stems produced annually from a woody base. Daisy flowers with brightyellow petals, 0.8-1.7 cm long, deeply 3-toothed, spreading from a yellow centre, form from July to January. Flowers have a scaly hemispherical base, 2.5-3 cm in diameter.

Found on coastal limestone and dunes.

Pleated Podolepis