ant wrote:
loosecanon wrote:
this site might help identifyng the serrated tussock
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/nrenin...00128CA256BCF0
00AD548ECC844336D72F0634A256DEA00293F8A

Thanks. I've been to a weeds day, got a coloured sheet handout, all the
stuff, and I'm still scratching my head. Nearest thing I can find in it is
that the serrated tussock has purple bases. Haven't found any of those yet,
but there's some things near the trees that develop long seed fronds in
summer.
thing is I don't want to be ripping out good grass mistakenly thinking it's
serrated tussock. Maybe I should volunteer my place for the next weed day.

Looking at the site though, all the big stuff down near the trees may well
be serrated tussock.Great!

--
ant

Take a look at

http://www.weeds.crc.org.au/document...ed_tussock.pdf

They refer to the Tasmanian DPI's checklist for identifying ST and that
states that " "The leaf cases are more tightly packed and more slender
than other tussocks and are a whitish colour - never purplr or
blue-green"

The seed heads create quite a fire hazard in the outer western suburbs
of Melbourne.