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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of hairy stem and old flower-heads in the bases of the paired leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of flower-heads and upper leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of leaf undersides and immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
seedlings (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
young plant (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, USGS)
Scientific Name
Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.
Synonyms
Verbesina nodiflora L.
Family
Asteraceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)Compositae (South Australia)
Common Names
cinderella weed, node weed, nodeweed, pig grass, synedrella
Origin
Native to Mexico, Central America (i.e. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), the Caribbean and South America (i.e. French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina).
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in northern Australia (i.e. naturalised in northern and eastern Queensland, in the northern parts of the Northern Territory, and in northern Western Australia). Also naturalised on Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands.
Naturalised overseas in south-eastern USA (i.e. Florida) and Hawaii.
Notes
Cinderella weed (Synedrella nodiflora) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in northern Queensland.
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