Wild Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Dipsacus fullonum L. |  Wild Teasel plant |
Common Name: | Wild teasel, Common teasel, Fuller's teasel | |
Status: | Regionally Controlled in the Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), North East and West Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Goulburn Broken and East Gippsland CMAs. | |
Habitat: | Subhumid temperate regions occurring mostly on neglected sites, roadsides, streambanks, etc. in areas with an annual rainfall over 750 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It occasionally invades poorly managed pastures of moderate or high fertility (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Wild teasel invades riparian vegetation and saline and subsaline wetlands (Carr et al 1992). |
 Wild Teasel base |  Wild Teasel flowerhead |  |
 Old Wild Teasel flowerhead | | |
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This document was last reviewed on 05/08/2009