Category: Weed Guide

Speedwell

Creeping Speedwell is a perennial weed that forms stolons and has small, kidney-shaped leaves, which are quite hairy.

Scrambling Fumitory

Scrambling Fumitory is a clambering annual weed that can grow at any time of the year, though most germination is in spring and autumn.

Scarlet Pimpernel

Barometer or Weather Glass are other common names for this plant due to the fact the flowers close when atmospheric pressure decreases and bad weather is approaching.

Redroot

Redroot is a summer annual, which dies off at the same time Fathen does – when frosts start in late autumn.

Purslane

This is an annual mat forming weed, sprawling out of the soil.

Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal is a creeping perennial weed with a stolon system and roots along the creeping stems that keep it secured to the ground.

Pearlwort

Pearlwort is a small, very common perennial plant that can form large mats or clumps of hairless green herbage, sometimes vaguely resembling a patch of moss in turf.

Parsley Piert

Parsley Piert is generally a winter annual, establishing in autumn and dying off during summer.

Parsley Dropwort

Commonly referred to as Carrot Weed, Parsley Dropwort is a perennial, regrowing from the base every year, with flowering shoots sent up from October through to April. Generally, this species isn’t a problem south of Auckland.

Oxtongue

Oxtongue (Picris echioides) is a tall (up to 1 metre) bristly leaved annual or biennial with yellow Dandelion-like flowers.