Aluminium Artillery Weed
The artillery or aluminium plant is a scrambling ground cover weed.
Winter Heliotrope
Winter heliotrope is a weed of waste places, near streams and under trees in the South Island and the lower half...
Wonga Wonga Vine
Wonga wonga vine and similar vines; Bower vine and Port St. John creeper are common weeds in waste places and ab...
Stonecrop Sedum
Stonecrop is a common weed in dry sandy waste areas, flowerbeds, paths and sometimes in lawns.
Agapanthus
Agapanthus was introduced as a garden plant but it naturalises and spreads easily in New Zealand, tolerating a w...
Tradescantia
Tradiscantia (aka wandering jew and wandering willie) is a ground cover weed. It invades quickly and shades out ...
Old Man's Beard
Old Man's Beard is a clematis and prolific climbing weed. It smothers trees and shrubs in gardens and native for...
Periwinkle
Periwinkle is a rapidly growing, perennial, scrambling ground cover weed. It forms rhizomes and long trailing st...
Broadleaf Weeds
Broadleaf weeds are weeds with leaves that have branched veins.
Bear's Breeches
Bear's breeches can become weedy in gardens and where it has escaped from gardens.
Convolvulus
Convolvulus is a creeping and climbing weed sometimes referred to as bindweed. It is a difficult to control weed...
Nightshade
Nightshades are a fast growing bushes and small trees, up to 5 metres tall. They can be found in rough pasture, ...
Arum and Italian Lily
Arum and Italian lilies are tuberous clump forming plants that produce attractive trumpet shaped flowers, but th...
Wild Ginger
Wild ginger, also known as kahili ginger and ginger lily, is a weed in many parts of New Zealand. It has long sp...
Moth Plant
Moth plant vine grows rapidly, forming large, heavy, long-lived tangled masses. Its seeds can drift long distanc...
Climbing Asparagus
Climbing asparagus fern weed is a fast growing, rapid coloniser. It is very shade tolerant and kills host plants...
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckles including Japanese honeysuckle and Himalayan honeysuckle grow fast and the Japanese honeysuckle has...
Tree Lupin
Tree lupins are soft wooded shrub with attractive yellow flowers. They are often seen colonising sandy areas, ri...
Blackberry Bramble
Blackberry (also known as bramble) is a member of the rose family. It has very thorny semi-upright stems and is ...
Pampas Grass
Pampas grass is an introduced grass that readily becomes weedy.
Banana Passionfruit
Banana passionfruit vine grows rapidly, forming large, heavy, long-lived tangled masses. Banana passionfruit vin...
Climbing Weeds
There are a variety of weeds that will climb and scramble up trees, walls, fences and through the growth of othe...