African love grass is a significant weed. It has spread rapidly and has the potential to invade the whole of south eastern Australia.African Love Grass information
Factsheet
A factsheet prepared for MLA and AWI using 3D weed management principles (Deliberation, Diversity, Diligence). Version 2.5
» Fact sheet (
275 KB)
Community ecology
Early emergence and resource availability can competitively favour natives over a functionally similar invader
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By Jennifer Firn, Andrew S. MacDougall, Susanne Schmidt and Yvonne M. Buckley.
...In this study, we measured competitive interactions among an invasive grass and two Australian native grasses that are functionally similar and widely distributed. ...
» Download from the Springer-Verlag website ( 334 KB)
African Lovegrass Workshop Proceedings
12 Dec 2008
Proceedings from the workshop held at Scottsdale run to get input from a range of people who have ALG experience or responsibilities including government officers, scientists, agronomists and landholders that manage it on a daily basis.
» Proceedings ( 149 KB)
ALG Bibliography
A listing on many useful references on managing African lovegrass.
» Bibliogrpahy ( 66 KB)
