Scattered across Victoria’s north-west Mallee region is a sea of yellow, orange and green. To the untrained eye, these plants could be mistaken for wildflowers. But ecologist Fiona Murdoch isn’t fooled.
“My daughter is 19 now, but I remember dropping her at the kindergarten bus stop, and a little path of gazania was there, so I went to get rid of it,” she says. “It spread all the way up the road and to her kinder, and I realised how invasive it was.”
