White weeping brooms control option
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White weeping brooms

Retama monosperma and Retama raetam

Weed profile

  • Perennial
  • Shrub
  • Tree
  • Hinders movement
  • Habitat: native vegetation

Impact

Invade native vegetation.

Description

  • Shrubs to 4m tall with grey-green drooping branchlets.
  • Leaves soon lost.
  • White pea flowers to 1 cm long in clusters.
  • Pods 1 cm long, 2-seeded.

Control options

Legal requirements in each region

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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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