tiabunna's photos with the keyword: weed

Mother of Millions is the common name for several related plants and hybrids, native to Africa and Madagascar. Introduced as a garden plant, it is now a serious weed in parts of Australia. It spreads by producing many plantlets (see notes) and is drought resistant. Worst of all, the plant and flowers are toxic to livestock.

I found this in our local nature reserve. (See also PiP). The kind description of it would be as a "garden escapee", but I really didn't have an ID for the plant itself and had asked for assistance. With the ID provided below by Amelia Heath I am now confident that this is a Crocosmia species, also known as Montbretia. As an aside, does anyone else find that the red tones of their images seem to be boosted when posted here?

Today is World Environment Day, so I thought I'd post something relevant to our local environment. This lovely flower (which also comes in some other shades - see PiP) is an invasive environmental weed. It goes by the name of African Daisy (Osteospermum fruiticosum). Like many of our weeds, it is a "garden escapee" and many people still cultivate it, but it produces massive quantities of viable seeds which spread rapidly - in places where it shouldn't be! As a Landcare volunteer, I join others in trying to eliminate it and other weeds from the local nature reserve.

I was very taken by the abundant colourful yellow flowers on the hillsides and alongside the roads in New Zealand's South Island, until I found they were gorse and broom - invasive weeds. So I decided to use my macro of them for this orb. Here's a musical link. Explored.

Don't they look great? Sadly, the Taiwan / Formosa Lily is a garden escapee that now has become an invasive weed, particularly along roadsides, in many parts of eastern Australia. View on black. Explored.

The Taiwan Lily ( Lilium formosanum ) is beautiful, but has escaped from gardens and has become a weed, often growing on roadsides.

These colourful flowers were alongside the road at several points in western Tasmania. A Tasmanian garden nursery has since confirmed my suspicions that they are garden escapees.

[Edited] These flowers were growing on small shrubs in parts of the Tasmanian west coast. I had identified them as a Tasmanian native plant, but several ipernity members picked them as Canary Broom Genista monspessulana . After some research, I must agree with them. That means that these pleasant looking flowers belong to particularly invasive plant which has been declared a "Weed of National Importance": about as nasty as can be found..... At least I didn't try to collect any cuttings or seeds!

Hoverfly on dandelion.