DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Dittrichia graveolens (L.) Greuter |  Stinkwort plant |
Common name: | Stinkwort, Stinkweed | |
Status: | Regionally Controlled in Port Phillip & Westernport (West and East) and North East CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Goulburn Broken, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs. | |
Habitat: | Warm-temperate and subtropical regions where it is found on sandy and other light textured soils in open, unshaded areas which annual rainfall of 300 to 500 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It occurs over broad areas of grazing land and on roadsides and neglected areas, particularly in depressions (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Stinkwort invades dry coastal vegetation, mallee shrubland, lowland grassland and grassy woodland and dry sclerophyll forest and woodland (Carr et al 1992). Present distribution produced from Viridans (1999) Wild Plants of Victoria database. |
 Stinkwort hairs |
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008