Australian Weeds and Livestock

Toxic to Ruminants: Cattle, Goats, Sheep
Botanical Name
Common Name
Georgina gidgee
Coastal myall, Sally wattle
Sorrel, Sour dock, Horse sorrel
Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Aconite
Small fruited pheasant’s eye, Red chamomile
Horsechestnut
Agapanthus, African Lily
Crofton weed.
Three corner garlic, Angled onion
Alocasia, Cunjevoi, Elephant ears, Giant taro
Bitter bark, Quinine tree, Peruvian bark
Khaki weed
Belladonna lily, Naked Lady
Amarynth, Redroot
Burr ragweed
Perennial ragweed, Western ragweed
Queen Anne’s lace, Bishop’s weed
Iron weed, Tarweed, Yellow Burrweed, Fiddleneck
Scarlet pimpernel
Madeira vine, Lambs tail
Stinking mayweed, Corn chamomile
Mothplant, Mothvine, Milk vine
Irish Strawberry tree
Capeweed, Daisy chains
Redhead cotton bush, Milkweed
Whitewood, Cattle bush
Saltbush
Deadly Nightshade, Dwale
Wild oats
Goundsel bush
Cobblers peg, Farmers friend, Beggar's ticks
Kurrajong
Wild turnip, Mediterranean turnip
Angel’s trumpet, Datura
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Fransiscia
Mother of millions, Christmas bells
Box hedge, Boxwood
Red Bird of Paradise, Mysore thorn, Wait-a while
Parakeela
Rubber bush/tree, Kings crown
Cannabis, Indian hemp, Marijuana
Hoary cress, White weed
Nodding thistle, Musk thistle
Slender/Shore/Italian Thistle
Silver cassia, Dense cassia, Punty bush
Pepper-leaved senna
Punty Bush, Desert Cassia, Scented Cassia
Coffee Senna, Arsenic Bush, Ant Bush
Australian Senna, Firebush
Sifton bush, Biddy bush, Cassinia, Chinese scrub
Dogwood, Dolly bush, Mountain itch
Black bean, Morton Bay chestnut
Mossman River grass, Buffel grass, Spiny burr grass
Green / Orange cestrum, Lady of the Night
Lucerne tree, Tagasaste
Rock fern, Mulga fern
Fat hen, Goosefoot, Nitre bush, Crunb weed
Windmill grass, Winter Rhodes grass
Californian thistle, Perennial thistle, Creeping thistle
Bitter apple, Wild water melon
Bitter melon, Wild melon
Clematis, Old Man’s Beard
Hemlock, Carrot fern, Poison Parsley
Larkspur
Lily of the Valley
Golden billybuttons, Yellow drumsticks
Rattlepods
Rubber vine
Paddy melon, Prickly paddy melon
Zamia, Sago palm
Couch
Daphne
Fierce Thornapple, Long-spine Thornapple
Thornapple, False Castor Oil, Jimson Weed
Delphinium
Stinging tree
Dumbcane
Foxglove
Corkwood
Golden dewdrop, Pigeon berry
Red crumbweed
Patersons Curse, Salvation Jane, Murrumbidgee bluebell
Blue thistle, Vipers bugloss
Spiny emex, 3 –corner Jack, Cats head, Double gee 
Horsetail, Scouring rush
Turkey mullein, Dove weed
Emu bush,  Berrigan, Native plum
Native fuchsia, Spotted emu bush
Coral tree, Corkwood
Coco leaf, Cocaine
Sugar gum
Spurge, Milkweed, Poinsettia, Caustic bush 
Desert poison Bush, Heart-leaf poison
Yellow jasmine, Carolina Jessamine, Woodbine 
Flax-leaved broom
Cape broom, Montpellier broom, Canary broom 
Honey locust tree, Bean tree
Glory lily, Climbing lily, Flame Lily
Cudweed
Narrow-leaf cotton bush
Balloon cotton Bush, Bladder cotton
Blue heliotrope
Common heliotrope
Christmas rose, Lenten rose
Rosewood, Boonery, Bullock bush
Cape tulip
Hoya, Waxflower
Hydrangea
Tutsan, Sweet amber
St John’s wort, Goat weed
Square stemmed hypericum, St Peter's wort
Tangled hypericum
Weir vine
Blue morning glory
Cowvine
Isotropis, Poison sage, Lamb poison
Flat billy-buttons, Plains plover daisy
Physic nut, Purge nut, Coral plant
Bellyache Bush
Common Juniper
Sheep laurel, Lambkill
Laburnum
Prickly lettuce, Compass plant
Deadnettle, Henbit
Lantana
Sweet pea
Leucaena
Broad-leaf privet
Small-leaf privet, Chinese privet
Ryegrass, Perennial ryegrass
Lotus, Native birdsfoot trefoil
Ludwegia, Water primrose
Lupins
African boxthorn, Boxthorn
Lesser loostrife
Burrawang, Wild pineapple, Zamia 
Bluebush
Marshmallow, Small flowered mallow
Milk vine
Nardoo
White cedar, Cape lilac, Neem tree
Tufted honeyflower, Cape honeyflower
Mapoon
Boobialla, Strichnine bush, Water bush 
Ellangowan poison bush, Dogwood, Turkey bush, Emu bush
Oleander, Rose Bay, Rose Laurel
Tree tobacco
Wild tobacco
Tobacco
Chincherinchee
Soursob, Oxalis, Shamrock, Wood Sorrel
Box Poison
Panic grasses
Opium poppy
Parkinsonia, Jerusalem thorn
Parthenium weed
African rue
Kikuyu grass
Avocado
Phalaris grasses
Philodendron
Inkweed, Pokeweed, Dye berry
Pimelia, Desert rice bush, Flaxweed
Radiata pine, Monterey pine
Munyeroo, Pigweed, Purslane
Purple devil’s claw
Mesquite
Apricot, Almond, Cherry, Plum, Peach, Prunus 
Emu-foot, Psoralea
Bracken, Austral fern
Oak tree
Wild radish, Jointed charlock
Turnip weed, Wild turnip
Wild mignonette, Dyer’s weed
Rhododendron, Azalea
Finger cherry, Native Loquat
Caster oil plant
Robinia, Black locust, False acacia
Onion weed, Guildford grass
Curled dock
Soft roly poly, Prickly saltwort, Tumbleweed 
Mintweed
Elder, Black Elder
Chinese tallow tree
Caustic vine, Caustic bush, Milk vine 
Pepper tree, Pepperina
Drunken Parrot tree, Tree fuschia, Boer bean 
Galvanised burr
Black roly poly, Five spined salt bush
Ragwort, St James wort
Fireweed, Variable groundsel
African daisy
Cotton fireweed
Common groundsel
Variegated, Spotted, Milk, Cabbage - Thistle
Kangaroo apple
Narrawa burr
Silverleaf nightshade
Quena, Potato weed, Wild tomato
Apple of Sodom, Bitter apple, Poison apple
Wild tobacco tree. Tobacco bush
Blackberry nightshade
Madeira winter cherry, Jerusalem cherry
Buffalo burr, Colorado burr
Thargomindah nightshade
Sow thistle, Milk thistle
Johnson grass, Aleppo grass, Evergreen millet 
Columbus grass
Stagger weed, Hedge nettle, Mint weed
Nodding blue lily, Blind grass
Darling pea, Swainsonia, Broughton pea
Stinking Roger
English yew
Yellow-wood
Yellow oleander, Tree daffodil, Be-still tree 
Branched onion weed
White or Blue parsnip
Wandering Jew
Peach-leaf poison bush
Caltrop, Cat-head, Puncture vine, Tar vine 
Liverseed grass, Urochloa
Supplejack
Crownbeard, Gold weed, American dog-weed 
Vetchs, Broad Beans
Noogoora Burr
Bathurst burr, Spiny cocklebur
Grass trees. Blackboys
Arum lily, Cattle lily
Stinkwood



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