Pig Weed

Pigweed

After rain, a succulent annual plant called pig weed can be found growing. Pig weed has red stems and thick green fleshy leaves. This plants gets a small yellow flower. Pig weed can be found in areas where the soil has been disturbed eg around watering points, in cattle yards, on the edges of graded roads etc.

Livestock do eat pig weed, however it is poisonous to animals who are not used to it eg if you graze hungry or travellilng stock on it. After a long dry 2009, the pig weed is flourishing in Western Queensland.