For every weed index below, developed through IEWF, you get 4 choices as to how to reach the weed information. If you are more comfortable with common names you can choose the common name index for the area otherwise use the scientific name index. For those of you with restricted computer resources you can choose the index without photos or if you don't care have a look at the index filled with weedy photos. If you want to just find a weed at no specific location try "Weeds in Australia" indexes. For an area developed independent to IEWF you will be linked to a site for that region.

When you have found your plant take note of the scientific name (1st part of name is genus, 2nd is species) and click here to go to Australia's Virtual Herbarium , developed by the various herbaria around Australia and DEH, to see distribution maps.

We hope you enjoy using our easy web weed lookup for assistance in weed identification!

Weeds in Australia
Common name index with photos
Common name index without photos
Scientific name index with photos
Scientific name index without photos

Deparment of the Environment, Water, Heritage and Arts
Weeds in Australia
Common name lookup
Weeds of National Significance

Australian Government - Australian Weeds Committee
Weeds Australia

Charles Sturt University has some great resources to help in identification of plants.
Visit The Virtual Herbarium and learn how to recognise the most common plant families, grasses and more.

Environmental weeds of Australia
- an interactive weed identification and information resource is available for purchase as a CDROM for $59 (ex GST and postage). Covering over 1,000 invasive plants it has detailed descriptions of major weed species, links to website information, a search engine, thousands of images and more. It has been developed by the CRC for Australian Weed Management and the Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT) at The University of Queensland. For more infomation visit CBIT.

Poison plant information links
Australian National Botanic Gardens: illustrations of some poisonous plants
Victorian Poisons Information Centre: Plants not friendly to children

The key to Environmental Weeds of Australia , is now available for free online, courtesy of Biosecurity Queensland.

Weed and native look alike comparisons - Hornsby Shire Council

Weeds CRC - link to archived website

A wealth of weeds information can be found on the archived Weeds CRC website. The Weeds CRC was functional from 1995-2008.

WWF - Australia
List of garden plants which are or have the potential to be weeds in Australia and their status.

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