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Title: Onion weed : what threat to the arid rangeland in Western Australia? / John Stretch.
Author: Stretch, J. K. (Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Carnarvon) ; Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture.
Year: 2002.
Series: Farmnote (Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture), ; no. 56/2002
Description: [2] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Weeds. ; Environmental impact. ; Identification. ; Asphodelus fistulosus. ; Range pastures. ; Weed biology. ; Western Australia.
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Type: Book
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A number of closely related plants are often referred to as onion weed. The most common is Asphodelus fistulosus, which is unpalatable and shunned by stock. Bulbinopsis semibarbata (native leek) is readily eaten by stock and the naturalised Trachyandra divaricata are less common. This farmnote discusses the current abundance of onion weed in Western Australian rangelands, biology and identification, environmental conditions which favour its spread, negative impacts, viability of control and potential econ
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