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Asclepias syriaca
Pulp from the fiber yields a good paper. During World War II, the seed hairs, being rather springy, ... prominent veins; upper surface smooth, lower covered with short white hairs and strong transverse nerves. Flowers sweet-smelling, pink to white, in ... .5 cm thick. Seed brown, flat, oval, 6 mm long, 5 mm wide, with a tuft of silky white hairs apically (Reed, 1970) ...
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Plants For A Future - Useful Weeds
The seed also releases a substance toxic to the larvae - ½ kilo of seed is said to be able ... from the outer stems is used to make cordage, whilst the 'cottony' seed hairs are used as a stuffing material in toys etc or as a ... it is the stinging nettle. Just one brush up against the stinging hairs on its leaves is enough to produce a lasting memory! A perennial ...
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Events at MBG
It provides wood, oil, and food, and the long seed hairs are used for insulation and stuffing. Kapok bark is used in Nigeria and India to ...
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Eugene Permaculture Guild - Eugene Oregon
Flowers for bouquets – Strawflowers, cosmos, marigolds.  Sunflowers for seed.  Kale and collards all winter long.  The neighborhood children running next door to gather tomatoes ... , on top of the six-foot fence, looking like an electrified porcupine with all his hairs standing out, back arched, eyes bulging like neon golf balls, glaring down the fence at ...
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APHIS Raleigh Plant Protection Center
Hirsute: Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Hydrosoil: The soil surface underneath a body of water. Identification collection: Federal Noxious Weed seed/propagule collection. Imbricate: Overlapping, as in ... With long, soft, straight hairs. Pinna: Primary division of a pinnately compound leaf. Pip: Small corm-like rootstock; as in taro (Colocasia esculenta). Pistil: The seed-bearing portion of ...
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Invasive Non-Native Plants
C. scandens). The Asian plant has its flowers and bright orange seed capsules in clusters all along the stem, while the native ... NATIVE ORNAMENTAL VINES: American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens), which bears flowers and seed capsules only at the branch tips, has been almost completely ... be identified by its lime-green color and a line of silvery hairs down the middle of the 2-3" long blade. It ...
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Acacia seyal
Cultivation Propagated from scarified seed. large cuttings are said to strike root readity in moist soils. Harvesting Pods, bark or ...
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Herbaceous Invasive Species
Usage : Invasive Potential : L Control Method(s) : ... Usage : Wetland Invasive Potential : L Control Method(s) : None Additional Comments : Reproduces by seed production and vegetative spread, introduced 1897 Campanula ranunculoides Common Name(s): Creeping bellflower ...
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Walton Hall Nature Trail, what's on July/Aug
They zoom along catching insects with the bristly hairs on their legs. The pink flowers with white anthers of great ... grows mainly along the river. The seed capsules of this introduced species explode when touched scattering seed over a wide area. The river is ... this year. Many of the grasses in the meadow have set seed and are being dried out by the hot weather but the ...
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Tephrosia virginiana - Goat's Rue seed
Links ] [ Lodging ] [ Natural World Books ] [ Prairie Prep ] [ Seeds,Plants,Grasses&Sedges ] [ Seeds & Plants Scientific ] [ Seed Mixes ] [ Site Map ] [ Urban Gardens ] Phone toll-free 800-291-2143 Tephrosia virginiana - Goat' ... the east and south. Reaches about two feet in height and is covered with fine hairs making it appear shiny or silvery. Flowers look like pink and white sweet peas ...
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