Sentences with phrase «noxious weed»

Unlike many other feedstuffs, amaranth grows rapidly and produces large amounts of seeds — remember, many species are considered noxious weeds!

What's needed, he says, is a broader Noxious Weeds List.

The USDA has not made public any plans to close the loophole and has also indicated that it will not broaden its definition of noxious weeds, a class of plants that falls under its regulatory purview, to facilitate the regulation of GM crops.

Below, you can read why I see good odds that this eco-cataclysm was caused by a communal binge on noxious weeds that thrive in the region in warm, wet springs.

«The rangelands of the west are being taken over by noxious weeds causing enormous financial loss,» Mooney says.

That's the response from a friend and native seed producer when I mentioned the news that Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), a highly invasive noxious weed has now appeared in several states across the Midwest.

Amends the Illinois Noxious Weed Law.

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.

But what about those noxious weeds?

WOODSTOCK - Giant hogweed, a non-native, noxious weed, has been discovered in Woodstock, the first finding in Ulster County to date, and that has environmentalists concerned.

As a result of the popularity of rafting, noxious weeds have spread along the river corridor, and recreationists have left their own unwelcome traces in the soil.

Just last year, the state of Florida listed crested floatingheart as a noxious weed, which means you have to obtain a permit to have and grow them, Gettys said.

Purple loosestrife has become an invasive species since its introduction into temperate New Zealand and North America where it is now considered a noxious weed.

But petitions failed to persuade the state's Department of Agriculture to put the plant on its Noxious Weed List, which prohibits importation, until 1992.

It is also considered a noxious weed in Texas and highly invasive in California.

Would a noxious weed, by another name, work?

In contrast, studies have shown that a large percentage of noxious weeds (such as crab grass, barn grass, ragweed, pampas grass, burrgrass, etc.) are C4 plants, which do not respond as strongly to increased CO2 levels as most crops, which are of the C3 variety.

Provides that «noxious weed» does not include industrial hemp.

The noxious weed — native to Asia and once planted to prevent soil erosion — has spread rapidly, smothering native species in its wake.

A noxious weed in New South Wales.

The reason is that provincial legislation no longer lists the humble (and edible) dandelion as a noxious weed.

«It baffles me that no one realizes that every time we conjure up an excuse for quieting someone else's dissent, we plant the seeds for the noxious weeds that choke off our own rights.

Alberta, like most provinces, has a Weed Control Act that lets you — nay, requires you — to do all manner of vicious things to a «noxious weed,» so defined by the regs.

The father of modern taxonomy, Carl Von Linné, would frequently name unpleasant plants after associates he didn't care for; the noxious weed Siegesbeckia, for example, is named after the German botanist Johann Siegesbeck.

Failure to do so would put the owner on a collision course with the noxious weed control bylaws, forcing the local municipality to cut weeds and send the owner the bill.

«Japanese knotweed, recently designated as a noxious weed, resists most non-chemical attempts to eradicate it and is a management challenge,» said a Hatch news release.