Species profile—Parthenium hysterophorus (parthenium weed)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Asteraceae (sunflower) → Parthenium hysterophorus (parthenium weed)
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Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Asteraceae (sunflower)
- Scientific name
- Parthenium hysterophorus L.
- Common name
- parthenium weed
- WildNet taxon ID
- 10959
- Alternate name(s)
- parthenium
whitetop
ragweed parthenium
ragweed
feverfew
false ragweed
congress grass
carrot grass
bitterweed
bitter weed - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=10959
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.