The issue: Puncturevine
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The issue: Leafy spurge
The issue: Western salsify
The issue: Houndstongue
The issue: Common yarrow
The issue: Field bindweed (morningglory)
The issue: Hoary cress (whitetop)
The issue: Canada thistle
The issue: Bur buttercup
The issue: Crabgrass
The issue: Spring weed control
The issue: Annual bluegrass
The issue: Quackgrass
The issue: Scotch thistle (Onopordum acanthium L.), is a non-native plant from Eurasia. This biennial, which can reach 12 feet, forms a rosette with large leaves and a deep taproot the first season. The leaves and stems are gray-green in color. Scotch thistle has very prominent stem “fins” a…
The issue: White Bryony
The issue: Russian Knapweed
Winter Weed Control: Bittersweet nightshade
The issue: Diffuse Knapweed
Winter Weed Control: Virginia Creeper
Winter Weed Control: Russian olive
Winter Weed Control: Siberian elm
Winter Weed Control: Woody plant control—basal bark treatment
Winter Weed Control: Woody plant control—Cut-stump
Fall Weed Control: Prickly lettuce — all-season annual or biennial
Fall Weed Control: Common chickweed — all-season annual
Fall Weed Control: Musk thistle: It’s not too late to do something.
Fall Weed Control: Common mallow; get it while it’s small
Fall Weed Control: Myrtle spurge; many pretty plants are a problem
Fall Weed Control: Shepherd’s purse — all-season annual
Winter weed control: Woody plant control
Fall weed control: Get a jump on perennial weeds
Fall weed control: Don’t wait for biennials to flower in the spring
The Enemy: Chinese Elm (Ulmus parifola)
The Enemy: Prostrate purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
The Enemy: Houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale)
The Enemy: Perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium)
The Enemy: Moth mullein (Verbascum blatteria L.)
The Enemy: Austrian filedcress (Rippa austriaca)
The Enemy: Smooth brome (Bromus inermis)
The Enemy: Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris)
The Enemy: Wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)
The Enemy: Western salsify (Tragopogon dubius)
The Enemy: London rocket (Sisymbrium irio)
The Enemy: Golden chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria)
The Enemy: Rocky Mountain beeplant (Cleome serrulata) or spider flower
The Enemy: Common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)
The Enemy: Maltese starthistle (Centaurea melitensis)
The Enemy: Orange sneezeweed (Hymenoxys hoopesii)
The Enemy: Catnip (Nepeta cataria)
The Enemy: Elk thistle (Cirsium foliosum)
The Enemy: Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
The Enemy: Creeping waterprimrose (Ludwigia peploides)
The Enemy: Desert saltgrass (Distichlis spicata)
The Enemy: Missouri goldenrod (Solidago missouriensis)
The Enemy: In the spirit of CHRISTmas — holly, that is English holly (Ilex aquifolium). Holly is a perennial evergreen shrub that can grow into large trees. As we all have seen around the holidays, it has wavy and waxy leaves with small spines. This plant comes from woodlands in Europe, East…
