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
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=8790
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
