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The plants that the strawberry root weevil feeds on include strawberry, raspberry, rhododendron, grape, and peppermint and they have also been known to feed on grasses. Adults feed nocturnally on leaves and stems, leaving notches and causing slight damage, while the larvae cause significantly more damage by feeding on the roots and crowns of ...
The plant takes the form of a large tuft of onion-like rounded hollow leaves up to 30 centimeters (12 in) long. The inflorescence is a panicle with widely spaced flowers. Each flower is 5 to 12 millimeters wide with six tepals which are generally white or very pale pink with a neat central longitudinal stripe of brown to reddish-purple. The ...
Potentilla indica, known commonly as mock strawberry, Indian-strawberry, or snakeberry in North America, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [1] It has ternate foliage and an aggregate accessory fruit , similar to the true strawberries of the Fragaria genus. [ 3 ]
Common Purslane. This annual succulent weed forms thick mats with fleshy leaves and small yellow flowers. It grows in a wide range of conditions, often appearing in gardens and disturbed soil.
The leaves are about 8 to 20 cm (3–8 in) long, smooth, toothed, [11] soft, and irregularly undulated. [12] The upper surface of the leaves is a darker green, and the bottom is a light green. [11] The leaves have a bitter and nauseating taste, which is imparted to extracts of the herb, and remains even after the leaves have been dried. [12]
Health benefits: They look a lot like blueberries but are softer and redder in color. Native to Alaska, Western Canada and parts of the U.S., saskatoon berries are rich in antioxidants and work ...
Allium triquetrum is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium native to the Mediterranean basin.It is known in English as three-cornered leek or three-cornered garlic, in Australia as angled onion, [4] and in New Zealand as onion weed. [5]
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.