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SOME
USEFUL BOOKS —
COMMON WEEDS OF NEW ZEALAND
Reproduced
from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
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 Nationwide Book Distributors
* 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.
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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.
- AgPest
- A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
 New Zealand Weeds Key
- An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.
New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
- Search for information on more than 2500 naturalised and weedy plants.
 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."
-
 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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