Not sure what plant it is? Start here or here!
Department of Conservation - region by region information
about your area’s biodiversity such as weeds,
marine and freshwater life and native
plants.
Landcare databases - plants and weeds.
The Natural Heritage Collection is a quirky collection of of images and videos that appreciate New Zealand's natural heritage. The collection also features plants.
Flaxes
Is the flax/harakeke found in your quadrat a weaving variety?
Grasses:
There's a great on-line identification key to grasses of New Zealand, prepared by botanists, Kerry Ford and David Glenny at Landcare Research in Lincoln.
Invasive aliens:
Some plants cannot be sold, propagated or distributed in New Zealand. Find out what they are from Biosecurity New Zealand. Then remove them from your school grounds!
Weeds:
A weed is a plant growing where it is not wanted and having a harmful impact. Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem. Check out their A to Z weed list and weed search pages.
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Dactylanthus,
New Zealand's only indigenous fully parasitic flowering plant.
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Massey University's weed database. The site also has a an excellent weed links page.
NZ Plant Pics - New Zealand natives and garden plants photography. This site could be useful for flora identification.
Weed action
Intermediate school student Hugh Mckenzie conducted a simple but effective experiment to see whether weeds can be spread by off road vehicles for his science fair project.
Over summer and autumn Hugh, with a little help from DOC staff (including his Mum and Dad, who both work for DOC) collected mud samples from 20 DOC trucks around Northland. He planted out his muddy samples in a glasshouse and for five months watched what grew. 495 plants of 29 different species emerged from the samples, and alarmingly most of these were exotics and some were environmental weeds.
Books:
Bush Vitality by Helmat Janssen