Species profile—Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Asteraceae (sunflower) → Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Asteraceae (sunflower)
- Scientific name
- Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
- Common name
- Siam weed
- WildNet taxon ID
- 8790
- Alternate name(s)
- bitter bush
Siam-kraut
agonoi
baby tea
paraffin bush
paraffin weed
king weed
Armstrong's weed
turpentine weed
Jack in the bush
Eupatorium
chromolaena
triffid weed
hagonoy
devil weed
Christmas bush - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=8790.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
