Bartlettina sordida
Environmental Weed (2024)
Common names
Bartlettina
Biostatus
Exotic
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
Flower colours
Red/Pink, Violet/Purple
Detailed description
Erect shrub that grows to about 2 m high. Stems are clothed with dense reddish-purple striped hairs. The leaves are large (to 25 x 25 cm) ovate and densely hairy . Purple-red flowers are produced November to January.
Similar taxa
This shrub is easily distinguished by its large hairy leaves, the reddish-purple hairs on the stems and the clustered purple-red flowers.
Habitat
Terrestrial.
Conservation status
Not applicable
Detailed taxonomy
Family
Asteraceae
Ecology
Flowering
November, December, January
Year naturalised
1984
Origin
Mexico
Reason for introduction
Ornamental
Life cycle and dispersal
Perennial; seeds produced in profusion (DOC Auckland 1998); dispersed by wind and people moving plants.
Other information
Etymology
sordida: From the Latin sordidus ‘dull’, ‘dirty’
Environmental Weed (2024)
This plant is named in a list of 386 environmental weeds in New Zealand 2024 prepared by DOC. 759 candidate species were considered for inclusion on this new comprehensive list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. The species considered were drawn from published lists of weed species, lists of plants that must be reported or managed by law if observed, existing national and regional programmes and agreements for pest management, and species already managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC). Candidate species were then assessed to see if they were fully naturalised and whether they have more than minor impacts in natural ecosystems. Read the full report here.
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
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