Skeleton weed
Chondrilla juncea
Weed profile
Perennial
Herb
Impact
Competes with crops.
Description
- Perennial herb with creeping roots.
- Leaves deeply toothed, in a basal rosette.
- Flowering stems wiry, almost leafless.
- Numerous, small, yellow flower heads.
Control options
metsulfuron-methyl (600g/kg)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 7g/ha
Product Name: Ally®
Herbicide Group: 2
Situation: Wheat, barley, cereal rye or triticale crops.
Comments: Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation. Suppression only.
Legal Status: Registered
2,4-D amine (475g/L)
Application Method: Spot spray
Application Rate: 180mL/150L
Product Name: Titan Amine 475®
Herbicide Group: 4
Situation: Crops.
Timing: Spot spray, winter
Comments: Hormone type herbicide - use with caution near sensitive crops. Refer to drift warnings on the label. Suppression only
Legal Status: Registered
2,4-D (300g/L) + picloram (75g/L) + 2,4-D amine (625g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 300mL + 375mL/ha
Product Name: Tordon 75-D® + Amine 625®
Herbicide Group: 4, 4
Situation: Pastures and non-crop situations.
Timing: Boom spray, winter
Comments: Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation. Hormone type herbicide - use with caution near sensitive crops. Refer to drift warnings on the label. Suppression only
Legal Status: Registered
2,4-D (300g/L) + picloram (75g/L)
Application Method: Spot spray
Application Rate: 650mL/100L
Product Name: Tordon 75-D®
Herbicide Group: 4
Situation: Pastures and non-crop situations.
Timing: Spot spray, winter
Comments: Soil residual. Do not use near desirable vegetation or in waterways. Do not apply near susceptible crops. Suppression only. Follow up spray with glyphosate.
Legal Status: Registered
2,4-D (300g/L) + picloram (75g/L) + 2,4-D amine (625g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 300mL + 375mL/ha
Product Name: Tordon 75-D® + Amine 625®
Herbicide Group: 4, 4
Situation: Wheat, barley, oat or triticale crops.
Timing: Boom spray, post emergent, young weed rosettes with up to 8 leaves.
Comments: Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation. Hormone type herbicide - use with caution near sensitive crops. Refer to drift warnings on the label. Suppression only
Legal Status: Registered
clopyralid (300g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 300mL/ha
Product Name: Lontrel®
Herbicide Group: 4
Situation: Canola crops.
Timing: Boom spray, 2 to 8 leaf crop stage.
Comments: Will provide control until harvest and reduce density in following season. Use with caution near sensitive crops, refer to drift warnings on the label.
Legal Status: Registered
clopyralid (300g/L) + MCPA (500g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 500mL + 1L/ha
Product Name: Lontrel® + Nufarm MCPA 500®
Herbicide Group: 4, 4
Situation: Cereal crops.
Timing: Boom spray, 5 leaf to late tillering crop stage.
Comments: Spray when rosettes are 5-15cm. Will provide control until harvest only. Use with caution near sensitive crops, refer to drift warnings on the label.
Legal Status: Registered
bromoxynil (200g/L) + diflufenican(25g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 1L/ha
Product Name: Jaguar®
Herbicide Group: 5,12
Situation: Wheat, barley, triticale or cereal rye crops; pasture.
Timing: Boom spray, up to 4 leaf stage
Comments: To provide control until harvest only.
Legal Status: Registered
2,4-D amine (475g/L) + glyphosate (450g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 760mL-1.1L + 1L/ha
Product Name: Titan Amine 475® + Roundup CT®
Herbicide Group: 4, 9
Situation: Conservation tillage.
Timing: Boom spray, November - January
Comments:
Suppression only. Hormone type herbicide - use with caution near sensitive crops. Add LI700® surfactant. Refer to drift warnings on the label.
Any glyphosate herbicide may be used, at the label rate. Non-selective, avoid contact with desirable plants.
Legal Status: Registered
Legal requirements in each region
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Alinytjara Wiluṟara Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Green Adelaide Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the South Australian Arid Lands Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
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Control advice
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