PHOTO: Parthenium found in Walgett shire in the recent outbreak. Image: Andrea Fletcher.
Coonamble is on high alert for Parthenium weed after 308 mature plants spread across 22 sites were found at the Wingadee Reserve in the Walgett Shire last December.
Twenty-eight plants were also found along the Castlereagh Highway 20 kilometres south of Walgett.
All sites have been treated and red awareness posts put up but landholders are encouraged to remain on high alert.
"They've been monitoring those little spots but no more plants . . .
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