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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

A quick guide to aliens recorded as naturalized on the Cape Peninsula

As guides can only do 500 species the list stops in "Solanum" and 80 species are omitted (this is our short list: there are over 800 species known at present).

Achyranthes aspera aspera
Agrostemma githago githago
creeping chaffweed 1
Alternanthera pungens
Prostrate Amaranth 2
Amaranthus deflexus
Amaranthus hybridus hybridus
Amaranthus lividus polygonoides
Amaranthus muricatus
Thunberg's Pigweed
Amaranthus thunbergii
Mignonette vine 3
Anredera cordifolia
Atriplex lindleyi inflata
Atriplex muelleri
Atriplex nummularia nummularia
Australian saltbush 4
Atriplex semibaccata
Beet 5
Beta vulgaris
Wineflower 6
Boerhavia diffusa
Sticky mouse-ear chickweed 7
Cerastium glomeratum
Cereus jamacaru
Fat-hen 8
Chenopodium album
Mexican tea 9
Dysphania ambrosioides
Low Goosefoot
Chenopodium botryodes
Keeled Goosefoot 10
Chenopodium carinatum
Tree spinach 11
Chenopodium giganteum
oak-leaved goosefoot 12
Chenopodium glaucum
cutleaf goosefoot 13
Dysphania multifida
Chenopodium murale murale
Chenopodium phillipsianum
Many-seeded Goosefoot 14
Chenopodium polyspermum
Echinopsis spachiana 15
Common Buckwheat 16
Fagopyrum esculentum
prostrate globe-amaranth 17
Gomphrena celosioides
small matweed 18
Guilleminea densa
tapeworm plant 19
Homalocladium platycladum
Blue statice 20
Limonium sinuatum
Upright Chickweed
Moenchia erecta
Mission Prickly-pear 21
Opuntia ficus-indica
tree cholla 22
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Drooping Prickly Pear 23
Opuntia monacantha
Brazilian Whitlow 24
Paronychia brasiliana
Rose Cactus 25
Pereskia aculeata
pale smartweed 18
Persicaria lapathifolia
Proliferous Pink 26
Petrorhagia prolifera
American pokeweed 27
Phytolacca americana
Ombu 28
Phytolacca dioica
Tropical Pokeweed 29
Phytolacca icosandra
Inkweed 30
Phytolacca octandra
blue plumbago 31
Plumbago auriculata
four-leaved allseed
Polycarpon tetraphyllum tetraphyllum
prostrate knotweed 32
Polygonum aviculare
rose-moss-of-garden 31
Portulaca grandiflora
Common purslane 33
Portulaca oleracea
Rougeplant 34
Rivina humilis
Rumex acetosella angiocarpus
Clustered Dock 35
Rumex conglomeratus
curled dock
Rumex crispus
Rumex pulcher divaricatus
Sea Pearlwort 36
Sagina maritima
saltwort 37
Salsola kali
German knotgrass 29
Scleranthus annuus
Rose-of-heaven
Silene coeli-rosa
Small-flowered Catchfly 38
Silene gallica

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