DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
African Daisy (Senecio pterophorus) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Senecio pterophorus DC. |
Common name: | African Daisy, South African daisy, winged groundsel |
Status: | Regionally Prohibited weed for the North Central, Wimmera, Corangamite, Goulburn Broken, North East and West Gippsland CMAs. Regionally Controlled weed in the Glenelg-Hopkins, Port Phillip & Westernport (East & West) CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee and East Gippsland CMA. |
Habitat: | Humid and subhumid subtropical and warm-temperate savannas, where it is mainly found on medium and lighter soil types (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It occurs as a weed of disturbed soils along roadsides and in denuded grazing land, newly sown pastures, forest margins and waste places (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). African Daisy invades lowland grassland and grassy woodland, and dry sclerophyll forests (Carr et al 1992). |
Related Links
Further information on the African Daisy can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008