Assignment/exercise
UniSC Plant Profile - Asteraceae, Sphagneticola trilobata
University of the Sunshine Coast
2023
Appears in UniSC Plant Profiles
Abstract
Sphagneticola trilobata grows in clay to sandy soils, found around dams, creek banks, swamps and coastal dune systems (Orchard, 2023). Native to Central America but has since become naturalised in many temperate and tropical parts of the world (Csurhes & Edwards, 1998). Current distribution in Australia includes the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Lord Howe Island (PlantNET, 1997). Despite being promoted by nurseries in the 1970s and used in Queensland for roadside and railway embankment stabilisation (PlantNET, 1997), it is now considered a Category 3 restricted matter under the Biosecurity Act (2014) and unable to be distributed or disposed (BCC, 2015). Stem fragments can be a means for S. trilobata to colonise new areas (Csurhes & Edwards, 1998). These fragments are most often spread through mowing and slashing, dumped garden waste and during floods (BCC, 2015).
Details
- Title
- UniSC Plant Profile - Asteraceae, Sphagneticola trilobata
- Authors
- Breanna Walsh Smit - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Location
- Latitude: -26.719 Longitude: 153.063; UniSC Sunshine Coast Campus, riparian zone near car park 12.
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date collected
- 02-Apr-2023
- Date published
- 2023
- Copyright note
- (c) The Author. Reproduced with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991094095802621
- Output Type
- Assignment/exercise; Plant Profile Sheet
- Teaching and Learning
- ENS221; Plant Diversity and Ecology
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