Noogoora burrs control option
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Noogoora burrs

Xanthium strumarium

Weed profile

  • Annual
  • Herb
  • Contaminates produce
  • Habitat: pastures, wetlands

Impact

Competes with pasture and riparian vegetation. Burrs contaminate wool.

Description

  • Summer-growing erect annual to 2 m tall.
  • Leaves shallowly 3-lobed, to 15 cm wide, rough-textured.
  • Flowers inconspicuous, green.
  • Burrs covered in small hooked spines, with two beaks at the tip.

Control options

Legal requirements in each region

To find out which landscape region you're in visit the NatureMaps website.

Alinytjara Wiluṟara

Eyre Peninsula

Green Adelaide

Hills and Fleurieu

Kangaroo Island

Limestone Coast

Murraylands and Riverland

Northern and Yorke

South Australian Arid Lands

Page Last Reviewed: 06 Sep 2021
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