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| Common
name: Cape daisy or cape weed |
Botanical
name: Arctotheca calendula |
| Family: Asteraceae |
Maximum height: 10
centimetres |
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Where found:
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- Well-drained, fertile sites
- Forest margins, lawns, roadsides, playing
fields, sandy ground. Especially spread by mulchers and mowers
from roadside berms and sportsgrounds.
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| Description: |
- Spreading annual.
- Serrated leaves with smooth margins - deeply lobed, grey-green
and woolly underneath.
- Yellow daisy flower with dark purple centre on long cottony
stalks, followed by many seeds egg-shaped, dark brown and woolly.
- Tolerant of wind, salt
- Poisonous to cattle.
Control:
- Grubbing or digging out may be successful
- Spot spray with herbicide, eg. Tordon gold
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