DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Marrubium vulgare L. |  Horehound plant |
Common Name: | Horehound | |
Status: | Regionally Controlled in the North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee CMA. | |
Habitat: | Semi-arid to humid temperate regions, growing on well drained soils (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It commonly occurs along fence lines, roadsides, channel banks, around buildings, on sheep camps and neglected urban areas, but under favourable conditions it invades pastures and occasionally cropping land (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Horehound invades dry coastal vegetation, mallee shrubland, lowland grassland and grassy woodlands, and rock outcrop vegetation (Carr et al 1992). |
 Horehound Plants |  Horehound Flower Head |
| Related Links Further information on Horehound suppression with the horehound clearwing moth & Horehound suppression with the horehound plume moth can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes. The Best Practice Management Guide for Environmental Weeds - Horehound was developed in 2000 and is available for download on the CRC for Weed Management website (external link). |
Information Note on Horehound - DPI Information Series.
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008