DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Hoary Cress (Cardaria draba) (Nox)
Invasiveness Assessment | Impact Assessment | Potential Distribution | Present Distribution
| Scientific name: | Cardaria draba (L.) Desv. |  Hoary Cress plants |
Common name: | Hoary Cress | |
Status: | Regionally Prohibited in the North East CMA. Regionally Controlled in the Mallee, Corangamite, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken and West Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins and East Gippsland CMAs. | |
Habitat: | Warm-temperate regions occurring in dry, unshaded situations on uncultivated, heavy, fertile soils up to subalpine levels (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It occurs as a weed of cereal crops, pastures, roadsides and neglected sites in areas with an annual rainfall exceeding 400 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). |
| Related Links Weed Identification Note for Hoary Cress - on the Weeds Australia website (external link). Information is provided on the generalised current distribution in Australia as well as other information such as origin, distinguishing features, dispersal etc. |  Hoary Cress Flowers |
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This document was last reviewed on 04/09/2008