For more information
Books and leaflets:
Bush Invaders of South-East Australia. Adam Muyt. Publ. RG &
FJ Richardson, 2001
Environmental Weeds, A field guide for SE Australia. Kate Blood. Publ. CH Jerram, 2001.
Noxious Weeds of Australia. WT Parsons & EG Cuthbertson. 2nd edition, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2001.
Noxious and Environmental Weed Control Handbook 2001/2002. NSW Agriculture Agdex 647, 2001.
Weed Control in Lucerne and Pastures 2001/2002 NSW Agriculture, 2001
Agfact series, available from NSW Agriculture. (Covers description and control of numerous agricultural weeds.)
Bush Regeneration. Recovering Australian Landscapes. Robin Buchanan. Publ. TAFE NSW, 1989.
Flowers of the South Coast and Ranges of New South Wales, A Field Guide, vols 1-3. Betty & Don Wood. Publ. Wood's Books, 1998-2000 (includes some weed photos and most native look-alikes).
Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney. Les Robinson. Kangaroo Press 1991 (includes good line drawings of some weeds, particularly vines)
Waterplants in Australia, A Field Guide. 3rd edition GR Sainty & SWL Jacobs. Sainty and Associates 1994.
Grasses - native and naturalised. NSW Agriculture, Agfact P2.5.32, 1990 (has photos of seed heads of many grasses).
Beach Plants of South Eastern Australia .Roger Carolin & Peter Clarke. Sainty & Associates, 1991.
Links:
www.agric.nsw.gov.au/weeds
information regarding legislation, reporting, grants, strategies, noxious weeds
www.agric.nsw.gov.au/noxweed
details of weeds declared in NSW
www.ento.csiro.au/research/weedmgmt/weedmgmt.html
provides information on biological control of weeds.
www.nre.vic.gov.au
and follow the links to plants & animals, hence to pest plants. Landcare
Notes series of weed profiles available on line.
www.weeds.org.au/index.html
provides an excellent search facility to source information about specific weeds,
including identification features.
www.ea.gov.au/about/siteindex.html
provides links to weed sites.
www.envbop.govt.nz
has photos and control suggestions for many weeds found in the Bay of Plenty
area, which is climatically similar to the NSW south coast, with many of the
same weeds. Interestingly, their weeds include several south coast natives.
weeds.tassie.net.au
gives information on identification and control of weeds occurring in the Tamar
valley, Tasmania (many relevant to the south coast).
www.pir.sa.gov.au/dhtml/ss/section.php?sectID=756&tempID=13
gives access to a series of weed identification leaflets as .pdf files from
the South Australian Department of Primary Industry and Resources (many relevant
to the South Coast).
www.tosustain.com/bitoubush
South coast bitou bush project, control, biology, management, reports
www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/CRCWMS
Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management Systems
www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/Plants/weeds/links.htm
for lots of weed information and links
www.nht.gov.au/programs/weeds.html
for information about Natural Heritage Trust funding for weed programs
www.weedsbluemountains.org.au
Blue Mountains weed web site based on weed booklet
www.northwestweeds.nsw.gov.au
for another local government site with weed species profiles, from the NSW north-western
slopes.
tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/index.html
The Nature Conservancy in the USA has an excellent site with very detailed fact
sheets on individual weed species, many of them also weeds in Australia.
www.nht.gov.au/funding/applications/weeds.html
For the information of Enviroweeds subscribers the Weeds CRC, on behalf of Environment
Australia, is undertaking a project to bring together information on all weeds
of national significance (WONs) and Alert List species.
www.niwa.cri.nz/rc/prog/aquaticplants
Provides some good photos of freshwater aquatic plants but because it is a New
Zealand site some of the species stated to be introduced are in fact native
to Australia, and most of the species listed as native to NZ are also native
in Australia.
www.nrm.qld.gov.au/pests/environmental_weeds/
Has some relevant species profiles and control advice (requires Acrobat Reader).
www.iewf.org
The International Environmental Weed Foundation, based in Sydney, has a weed identification site under development.
www.thebegavalley.com
Check under Resources for more photos of weeds and native plants found in Bega Valley Shire.
www.weedmanager.net
This webpage is still under construction, but promises an index of weed photos
free for use to anyone. In the meantime it provides a link to a Hawaian website
with 100's of weed photos (including numerous Australian native plants gone
weedy in Hawaii).