Bulletin, Issue 4The Survey, 1913 - Geology |
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Page 53
... thicker spike ( " head " ) than quack grass ; running root - stocks ( " roots " ) . Common along , railways and in northwestern Iowa . This plant is not considered a weed . It may be used to plant railway embankments . The Slender Wheat ...
... thicker spike ( " head " ) than quack grass ; running root - stocks ( " roots " ) . Common along , railways and in northwestern Iowa . This plant is not considered a weed . It may be used to plant railway embankments . The Slender Wheat ...
Page 89
... thick outer epidermal walls . Distribution . Common from Canada to Florida and west , found in all parts of Iowa ; an exceedingly variable plant ; sometimes found in very moist situations , and in stagnant water , or in somewhat higher ...
... thick outer epidermal walls . Distribution . Common from Canada to Florida and west , found in all parts of Iowa ; an exceedingly variable plant ; sometimes found in very moist situations , and in stagnant water , or in somewhat higher ...
Page 113
... thick spikes crowded in a stiff or bunchy , spiky panicle ; bracts subulate , longer than the mucronate or obtusely- tipped sepals . Distribution . - A weed throughout North America , especially east- ward ; abundant in every county in ...
... thick spikes crowded in a stiff or bunchy , spiky panicle ; bracts subulate , longer than the mucronate or obtusely- tipped sepals . Distribution . - A weed throughout North America , especially east- ward ; abundant in every county in ...
Page 175
... thick walled . Distribution . - Naturalized from Europe ; eastern Canada , New England , to Kansas ; common in Iowa , in Story , Boone , Polk , Clin- ton , Lyon , Carroll , Woodbury , Kossuth , Webster , Marshall , Cerro Gordo , Worth ...
... thick walled . Distribution . - Naturalized from Europe ; eastern Canada , New England , to Kansas ; common in Iowa , in Story , Boone , Polk , Clin- ton , Lyon , Carroll , Woodbury , Kossuth , Webster , Marshall , Cerro Gordo , Worth ...
Page 193
... York and south to Georgia . Common on borders of thick- ets , woods and native meadows . Extermination . This weed is easily exterminated by cultivation . Purple or Stemless Loco Weed ( Oxytropis lamberti Pursh . 13 DESCRIPTIVE MANUAL 193.
... York and south to Georgia . Common on borders of thick- ets , woods and native meadows . Extermination . This weed is easily exterminated by cultivation . Purple or Stemless Loco Weed ( Oxytropis lamberti Pursh . 13 DESCRIPTIVE MANUAL 193.
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abundant achene aleurone alfalfa annual arvensis bindweed bracts brown brownish Bull calyx Canada thistle canadensis caryopsis Cirsium arvense Clark and Fletcher clover seed cocklebur color common corn corolla cotyledons crop cultivation Curled Dock dandelion Decatur Description.-A Distribution Distribution.-Common dodder Drawing by Charlotte elongated embryo empty glumes endosperm epidermal cells epidermis Europe Extermination FAMILY fields Figure flowering glume foxtail fruit germination glume grain hairs Hillman involucre Iowa King L. H. Pammel lanceolate layer leaf leaves length meadows morning-glory mustard noxious weeds nucellus oblong outer ovate palisade cells pappus parenchyma parenchyma cells pastures perennial pericarp Photographed by Colburn pigment pistil Plantago plantain plants plowing Polygonum protein pubescent quack grass ragweed roadsides roots Rumex scar Shepherd's Purse Smartweed smooth soil species spikelet Spurge stamens stem surface testa thick-walled thin-walled Thistle Cirsium trichomes U. S. Dept walls waste places weed seeds Wild Winton yellow
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Page 704 - US Dept. of Agr.) have apparently become strongly aggressive under changed conditions. These are some of the instances which may show that predominance is not in consequence of change of country and introduction to new soil. In the interesting paper of Claypole the author argues that the abundance of European weeds in North America is because European plants are more plastic than American plants. He says : But a weed possessing a plastic nature — one capable of being...
Page 14 - ... second and third glumes, the latter having sometimes a hyaline palea in its axil; floral glume elliptical, subacute, smooth and shining, a little shorter than the larger outer glumes; anthers saffron yellow.
Page 18 - It is not generally recognized, but it is probably true, that more money is spent in the extermination of foxtails than of any other class of weeds we have in the state of Iowa, yet they are all easily destroyed. One of the best and most effective methods of destroying the foxtail is by plowing the small grain field as soon as the grain is removed. If this is not done a large amount of seed is produced. After this plowing in the fall the field should be disked and harrowed in the spring and then...
Page 622 - Accompanying this maturing of the ovule, various other changes take place which give distinguishing features to different seeds. Frequently the endosperm grows so extensively as to absorb and replace the cells of the nucellus and thus comes to occupy all the space within the coats of the integuments, as in the morning-glory, onion, etc. The embryo may remain comparatively small as in the morning-glory or onion, or it may in turn absorb and replace all the cells of the endosperm and so come to occupy...
Page 399 - ... brought under conditions favorable for germination at intervals for several years. Mature plants should be mowed and burned before plowing. The seed appears as an impurity in clover, millet and the heavier grass seeds, and the plant is doubtless most frequently introduced by this means. As the seeds may be carried a long distance by the wind, the plants must be cleared out of the fence rows, waste land and roadsides.
Page 805 - Russian thistles, wild lettuce or wild mustard are growing on any lands in their township, and are about to spread or mature seed between the first day of June and the fifteenth day of October of each year, said trustees shall cause notice in writing to be served upon the...