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SOME
USEFUL BOOKS —
COMMON WEEDS OF NEW ZEALAND
Reproduced
from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Bruce Roy, Ian Popay, Paul Champion, Trevor James & Anis
Rahman
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or descriptive
text on these pages is unauthorised unless written permission is
obtained from the authors and publisher. Appropriate acknowledgement
of the publication Common Weeds of New Zealand must always
be given.
Available from Manaaki-Whenua
Press and Touchwood
Books
* Books
marked with an asterisk may be out of print, but may be available
from second-hand bookshops.
Books
referred to in
An Illustrated Guide to Common Weeds of New Zealand
Brownsey, P.J. and Smith-Dodsworth,
J.C. (1989). New Zealand ferns and allied plants. Bateman Ltd.,
Auckland.
*Connor, H.E. (1977).
The poisonous plants in New Zealand. Second edition. (NZ DSIR Research
Bulletin 99.) Government Printer, Wellington.
Edgar, E. and Connor,
H.E. (2000). Flora of New Zealand. Volume V. Grasses. Manaaki Whenua
Press, Lincoln.
*Healy, A.J. (1982).
Identification of weeds and clovers. Third edition. Editorial Services,
Featherston, New Zealand, 299 pp.
*Healy, A.J. (1984).
Standard common names for weeds in New Zealand. Second Edition.
New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Society Inc., Hastings, New Zealand,
208 pp.
Healy, A.J. and Edgar,
E. (1980). Flora of New Zealand. Volume III. Adventive Cyperaceous,
Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington,
pp.
Nicol, E.R. (1997). Common
names of plants in New Zealand. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Upritchard, E.A. (1985).
A guide to the identification of New Zealand common weeds in colour.
New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Society (Inc.), Hastings, New
Zealand, 127 pp.
Webb, Sykes and Garnock-Jones.
(1988). Flora of New Zealand. Volume IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes,
Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch, 1364
pp.
Other
useful books about New Zealand's Weeds
Auckland Regional Council.
(2002). Plant me instead: Plants to use in place of common pest
plants. Auckland Regional Council.
*Coffey, B.T. and Clayton,
J.S. (1988). New Zealand waterplants: A guide to plants found in
New Zealand waters. MAFTechnology, Ruakura Agricultural Centre,
Hamilton.
*Esler, A.E. (1988).
Naturalisation of plants in urban Auckland. DSIR Publishing.
*Hilgendorf, F.W. (1926
onwards). Weeds of New Zealand and how to eradicate them. Whitcombe
and Tombs, Christchurch, New Zealand (several editions).
Hubbard, C.E. (1984).
Grasses. A guide to their structure, identification, uses, and distribution
in the British Isles. Third edition. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,
England, 476 pp.
*Ivens, G.W. and Taylor,
R.L. (1985). The New Zealand garden weed book. A guide to identification
and control. Reed Methuen, Auckland, 144 pp.
Johnson, P.N. and Brooke,
P.A. (1989). Wetland plants in New Zealand. DSIR Publishing, Wellington.
Johnson, P.N. (1997).
Pick of the bunch: New Zealand wildflowers book. Longacre Press.
*Lambrechtsen, N. (1986).
What grass is that? DSIR Information Series No. 87, third edition.
Government Printer, Wellington, 151 pp.
Low, Tim (1991). Wild
herbs of Australia and New Zealand. Angus and Robertson, Australia,
160 pp.
*Matthews, L.J. (1973).
Weed control by chemical methods. Government Printer, Wellington.
*Parham, B.E.V. and Healy,
A.J. (1976). Common weeds in New Zealand. An illustrated guide to
their identification. A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, Wellington.
Protect New Zealand.
(2002). New Zealand Pest Plant Manual. Protect NewZealand,
Wellington.
Taylor, G.M. (2002).
Meanings and origins of botanical names of New Zealand plants. Auckland
Botanical Society, Auckland.
*Taylor, R.L. (1980).
Weeds of crops and gardens in New Zealand. R.L. Taylor, Upper Moutere,
New Zealand, 128 pp.
*Taylor, R.L. (1980).
Weeds of ponds and streams in New Zealand. R.L. Taylor, Upper Moutere,
New Zealand, 32 pp.
*Taylor, R.L. (1981).
Weeds of lawns, pasture and lucerne in New Zealand. R.L. Taylor,
Upper Moutere, New Zealand, 136 pp.
*Taylor, R.L. (1981).
Weeds of roadsides and waste ground in New Zealand. R.L. Taylor,
Nelson, New Zealand, 176 pp.
Several of these titles
are available from the New
Zealand Plant Protection Society, Manaaki
Whenua Press, and Touchwood
Books.
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of Page
Web-notes:
Weed Links
On this site
Reproduced from Common Weeds
of New Zealand:
External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
 New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network Weeds Fact Sheets
- Search for 1500 weed fact sheets mainly derived from the Department of
Conservation's BIOWEB weeds database.
 New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms
and methods for modifying their effects."
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 New
Zealand Landcare Trust
- Plant Pest information including Pictures, Distribution Maps, References,
Environmental Effects and Control.
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- New
Zealand Aquatic Weeds
- Hosted by the weed management group of NIWA (National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research).
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- Weed
Control Manual for the Bay of Plenty
- Weeds information compiled by Environment Bay of Plenty.
-
 Massey
University Weeds Database- A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control.
It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on
identification and control. It also provides information on a university
paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
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- Canterbury
Weed Guide
- A weed identification guide prepared by the Christchurch City Council.
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- Australian
Plants as Weeds
- Part of the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants website.
- Department
of Agriculture Western Australia
- Collection of weed resources from the Department of Agriculture, Government
of Western Australia
- Weed
Society of Victoria
- Promoting wider awareness and interest in weeds and their management.
Includes a useful page of links
to other weed societies.
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- Tamar
Valley Weeds Strategy
- Listing of common and botanical names, images, and information including
control methods for weeds found in Tasmania, and also on the Australian
mainland.
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- New
Jersey Weed Gallery, USA
- Listing of common and botanical names and images, plus a small amount
of information for weeds that cause problems in the USA.
- Invasive
and Exotic Species of North America
- Images and other information from the University of Georgia.
- University
of California
- Weed Photo Gallery, with common and botanical names.
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- World
of Weeds
- Weed-related resources including weed science, practical tools, gardening
tips about controlling weeds, and environmental news updates.
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- Invasive
Species Specialist Group
- "The ISSG aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native
species they contain by increasing awareness of invasive alien species,
and of ways to prevent, control or eradicate them."
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- Invasive
Woody Plants
- Collection of research and associated literature for invasive woody plants
in the tropics and the temperate zone.
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- WeedScience.com
- Site that includes a comprehensive collection of weed images from around
the world.
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-
 Books
on Weeds from FetchBook.Info
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