Noogoora burrs
Xanthium strumariumWeed 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.