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The climate and environment of the Southeastern United States allowed the kudzu to grow virtually unchecked. In 1953 the United States Department of Agriculture removed kudzu from a list of suggested cover plants and listed it as a weed in 1970. By 1997, the vine was placed on the "Federal Noxious Weed List".
Beneficial weed chart Common name Scientific name Companion plant for Attracts/hosts Repels Traps Edibility Medicinal Avoid Comments Bashful mimosa: Mimosa pudica: Ground cover for tomatoes, peppers: predatory beetles: Used as a natural ground cover in agriculture Caper spurge: Euphorbia lathyris: Moles: Used in French folk medicine as an ...
Sida cordifolia ('ilima, [1] flannel weed, [2] bala, country mallow or heart-leaf sida) is a perennial subshrub of the mallow family Malvaceae native to India. It has naturalized throughout the world, and is considered an invasive weed in Africa, Australia, the southern United States, Hawaiian Islands, New Guinea, and French Polynesia.
"Identification of the weed will help you determine the timing of weed removal before flowering and seed production," says Teresa Watkins, host of syndicated iHeart garden radio show, Better Lawns ...
The species has been found in a variety of climates, including tropical, subtropical, southern and northern temperate, humid coastal, and dry continental. [14] It is found at elevations from sea level to 2,300 metres (7,500 ft). [citation needed] T. latifolia is an "obligate wetland" species, meaning that it is always found in or near water. [16]
Leersia hexandra is a species of grass known by the common names southern cutgrass, clubhead cutgrass, and swamp rice grass. [3] It has a pantropical distribution. [ 4 ] It is also an introduced species in many regions, sometimes becoming invasive , and it is an agricultural weed of various crops, [ 3 ] especially rice . [ 5 ]
Ohio just became the 24th state to legalize recreational marijuana. Issue 2, approved by Ohio voters on Tuesday, will allow adults 21 and older to buy, possess and grow marijuana.
In the United States, Johnson grass is listed as either a noxious or quarantined weed in 19 states. [6] With Sorghum bicolor it is a parent of Sorghum × almum, a forage crop also considered a weed in places. [7] It is named after an Alabama plantation owner, Colonel William Johnson, who sowed its seeds on river-bottom farm land circa 1840. The ...