Multicolour menace: these hardy daisies love Australian conditions – and are taking over roadsides | Rural Australia

Scattered across Victoria’s northwest 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…