For every weed index below, developed through IEWF, you get 4 choices as to how to reach the weed information. If you are more comfortable with common names you can choose the common name index for the area otherwise use the scientific name index. For those of you with restricted computer resources you can choose the index without photos or if you don't care have a look at the index filled with weedy photos. If you want to just find a weed at no specific location try "Weeds in Australia" indexes. For an area developed independent to IEWF you will be linked to a site for that region.

When you have found your plant take note of the scientific name (1st part of name is genus, 2nd is species) and click here to go to Australia's Virtual Herbarium , developed by the various herbaria around Australia and DEH, to see distribution maps.

We hope you enjoy using our easy web weed lookup for assistance in weed identification!

Weeds in Australia
Common name index with photos
Common name index without photos
Scientific name index with photos
Scientific name index without photos

Charles Sturt University has some great resources to help in identification of plants.
Visit The Virtual Herbarium and learn how to recognise the most common plant families, grasses and more.

Poison plant information links
Australian National Botanic Gardens: illustrations of some poisonous plants
Victorian Poisons Information Centre: Plants not friendly to children

Weeds CRC - link to archived website

A wealth of weeds information can be found on the archived Weeds CRC website. The Weeds CRC was functional from 1995-2008.

Weeds of Australia

Weeds Australia - weed profiles.

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