Noxious and state prohibited weeds

Agriculture Victoria has an extensive list of noxious weeds and tips on removing them available online. Please note noxious weeds can not be placed in the FOGO bin.

• African boxthorn
• African daisy
• African feather grass
• African lovegrass
• Amsinckia
• Artichoke thistle
• Blackberry
• Boneseed
• Buffalo burr
• Caltrop
• Cape tulip (one-leaf)
• Cape tulip (two-leaf)
• Chilean cestrum
• Chilean needle grass
• Devil's claw (purple flower)
• Devil's claw (yellow flower)
• English broom
• Flax-leaved broom
• Golden thistle
• Gorse
• Hardheads
• Illyrian thistle
• Khaki weed
• Noogoora burr
• Paterson’s curse
• Prairie ground cherry
• Prickly pear (drooping)
• Prickly pear (erect)
• Ragwort
• Scotch thistle
• Serrated tussock
• Silverleaf nightshade
• Skeleton weed
• Soldier thistle
• Spiny broom
• Spiny burr grass
• Spiny emex
• Star thistle
• Stemless thistle
• St Barnaby's thistle
• Thorn apple (recurved)
• Wheel cactus

State prohibited weeds

• State prohibited weeds in Victoria
• Weed Spotters
• Alligator weed
• Branched broomrape
• Camel thorn
• Hawkweed
• Horsetails
• Karoo and giraffe thorn
• Knotweed
• Lagarosiphon
• Mesquite
• Mexican feather grass
• Parthenium weed
• Perennial ragweed
• Poverty weed
• Salvinia
• Tangled hypericum
• Water hyacinth