Observations in the Tribe: Heliantheae
This taxon contains:
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 11th January 2014
Added to iSpot: 23rd January 2014
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 19th February 2006
Added to iSpot: 23rd November 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 24th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 29th July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
Observed on: 15th April 2010
Added to iSpot: 19th July 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 1st January 2009
Added to iSpot: 19th July 2013
Identifications: 4
Agreements: 1
Comments: 9
By: Joan Young
Observed on: 30th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 31st May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: This plant was about 15cm in height. Each one had just the one flower.
Location: Grootfontein
Lat/Lng: -31.474219, 25.033376
Not actually from here - was present in a sample of maize that was shown to us.
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Observed on: 23rd May 2013
Added to iSpot: 23rd May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 19th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 21st May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 3
Description: Can grow up to 3M tall and form dense colonies. Totally swamps indigenous vegetation. Kenyan farmers have found value as a green manure. AKA Tree Marigold.
Observed on: 19th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 3
Description: Central American perennial garden escapee. Up to 3,5m tall, forming dense colonies displacing indigenous vegetation along road- and rail-sides and riverbanks. Fire and herbicide resistant, physical removal before seeding is the only currently viable, but expensive, solution.
Observed on: 4th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 9th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Introduced from South America and declared a noxious weed in 1860 by the Cape government when extermination of this weed was made obligatory under the penalty of a fine, thus its Afrikaans common name, 'boetebossie'. Plant height about 0.7m
Observed on: 23rd April 2013
Added to iSpot: 23rd April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Incredibly, some south coast nurseries are still selling this CARA Cat 1 invasive groundcover
By: Warren Schmidt
Observed on: 5th January 2010
Added to iSpot: 15th April 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 2
Description: This plant was photographed in the nature reserve at Uvongo, KwaZulu-Natal.
Observed on: 24th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 5th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 1
Description:
Leisure Bay Beach Walk
Environment. On the beach front, but also seen cultivated and coastal bush margins. Abundant.Plant. Low bush, 150mm high. Stalks brown.Leaves. Toothed, 50 by 20mm. Mildly hairy.Inflorescence. Single flower at end of a slightly hairy peduncle.Flowers. 350mm diameter, orange ray and discoid florets.Bracts. Two rows, large about half ray florets.
Observed on: 23rd February 2013
Added to iSpot: 2nd March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: weed that arrived with fodder
By: zanypurr
Location: S10, Rumphi
Lat/Lng: -10.829, 33.595
Western scarp of Nyika Plateau, rough scrub grassland
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Observed on: 18th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 14th February 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 3
Observed on: 23rd January 2013
Added to iSpot: 26th January 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 8th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 10th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Description: A weed growing in disturbed soil.
Observed on: 20th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Naturalized weed from South America.
Observed on: 9th April 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Description: Naturalized exotic/weed. Leaves opposite, stalkless, covered with rough hairs. Flower heads solitary; stalks thicken towards end. Looks like Cannabis sativa var. sativa in the background. OFS great place for naturalized exotics.
By: JeanRodel
Location: Umhlanga area
Lat/Lng: -29.7253, 31.0858
This invasive is listed under CARA as a category 1 invasive and must be removed.
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Observed on: 9th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Mat forming perennial herb.
Observed on: 11th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th November 2012
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 0
Comments: 8
Description: ASTERACEAE. Shrubby perennial on forest margins. Stems slender, groved. Leaves velvety, dark green, much paler beneath; blade drooping, lobed, margins toothed, stalks long, slender and hairy. Flowers yellow to orange.
Observed on: 1st November 2012
Added to iSpot: 6th November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
By: Joanne-Mari
Observed on: 4th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Observed on: 27th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 29th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
By: Nomvume
Observed on: 7th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 2nd July 2006
Added to iSpot: 21st June 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Exotic annual (sometimes called the South African Daisy) from central Americas. I'm pretty sure about the species, but the variety choice is based only on distribution in Plants of SA 2003. Found growing in sandy soils near Acacia erioloba trees - generally colonises disturbed soils.
Observed on: 4th April 2011
Added to iSpot: 7th June 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 14th March 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th April 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Several plants growing in the riparian zone, especially in disturbed areas (e.g. cattle, road edge, etc.).
Observed on: 24th March 2012
Added to iSpot: 28th March 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: A South American weed that is now common in South Africa. It is poisonous, the burs contaminate sheep's wool and it is a pest in annual crops.
By: tony rebelo
Observed on: 13th March 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th March 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Observed on: 10th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th February 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Observed on: 4th December 2011
Added to iSpot: 4th December 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Extremely abundant invasive weed (ground-creeper) in the riparian zone under neath trees. Mowed lawn dominate beyond the boundary of the riparian zone.
Observed on: 14th November 2011
Added to iSpot: 14th November 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: In the road reserve
By: c.summersgill
Observed on: 27th December 2008
Added to iSpot: 25th August 2011
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
