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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).

sticky snakeroot 1
Ageratina adenophora
common ragweed 2
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Stinking chamomile 3
Anthemis cotula
black-jack 4
Bidens pilosa
Coast Silver-oak 5
Brachylaena discolor
Brachylaena elliptica
Italian thistle 6
Carduus pycnocephalus
woolly distaff thistle 7
Carthamus lanatus
purple star-thistle 8
Centaurea calcitrapa
Cornflower 9
Centaurea cyanus
Maltese star-thistle 10
Centaurea melitensis
Tricolor Daisy 11
Ismelia carinata
Chrysanthemum segetum 12
spear thistle 13
Cirsium vulgare
Broad Leaved Fleabane 14
Conyza albida
Conyza bonariensis 15
horseweed 16
Erigeron canadensis
Conyza scabrida 17
Lance-leaved Coreopsis 18
Coreopsis lanceolata
Cotula anthemoides
Australian Waterbuttons 19
Cotula australis
Stinkwort 20
Dittrichia graveolens
Santa Barbara daisy 21
Erigeron karvinskianus
Gallant Soldier 22
Galinsoga parviflora
Glebionis coronarium
Crete weed 23
Hedypnois cretica
Helichrysum indicum
Jersey Cudweed 24
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum
Smooth Cat's Ear 25
Hypochaeris glabra
Common Cat's-ear 26
Hypochaeris radicata
prickly lettuce 27
Lactuca serriola
nipplewort 28
Lapsana communis
bristly oxtongue 29
Helminthotheca echioides
dwarf marigold 30
Schkuhria pinnata
creeping groundsel 14
Senecio angulatus
Senecio polyanthemoides
Shoddy Ragwort 31
Senecio pterophorus
milk thistle
Silybum marianum

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