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).

All 500

sticky snakeroot ¹
Ageratina adenophora

common ragweed ²
Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Stinking chamomile ³
Anthemis cotula

black-jack ⁴
Bidens pilosa

Tricolor Daisy ⁵
Ismelia carinata

Chrysanthemum segetum ⁶

Broad Leaved Fleabane ⁷
Conyza albida

Conyza bonariensis ⁸

horseweed ⁹
Erigeron canadensis

Conyza scabrida ¹⁰

Lance-leaved Coreopsis ¹¹
Coreopsis lanceolata

Cotula anthemoides

Australian Waterbuttons ¹²
Cotula australis

Stinkwort ¹³
Dittrichia graveolens

Santa Barbara daisy ¹⁴
Erigeron karvinskianus

Gallant Soldier ¹⁵
Galinsoga parviflora

Glebionis coronarium

Helichrysum indicum

Jersey Cudweed ¹⁶
Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum

dwarf marigold ¹⁷
Schkuhria pinnata

creeping groundsel ⁷
Senecio angulatus

Senecio polyanthemoides

Shoddy Ragwort ¹⁸
Senecio pterophorus

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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

sticky snakeroot 1 Ageratina adenophora

common ragweed 2 Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Stinking chamomile 3 Anthemis cotula

black-jack 4 Bidens pilosa

Tricolor Daisy 5 Ismelia carinata

Chrysanthemum segetum 6

Broad Leaved Fleabane 7 Conyza albida

Conyza bonariensis 8

horseweed 9 Erigeron canadensis

Conyza scabrida 10

Lance-leaved Coreopsis 11 Coreopsis lanceolata