redroot

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Of the three, the one-ton and two-ton rates worked best in peppermint, reducing barnyard grass, green foxtail, common lambsquarters, henbit and redroot pigweed populations by 90 percent several weeks after application.

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  1. noun An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers.
  2. noun A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers.
  3. noun See ceanothus.

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  • He waited for me in front of a little house in a grove of redroot, a lovely little bower, all leaves outside, so that you would walk within arm's length of it and not see it. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
  • The virus infects most Allium species and also is known to infect some ornamentals (iris, lisianthus) and some weeds (jimsonweed, tobacco, redroot pigweed) (UC-IPM). —  Western Farm Press RSS Feed
  • Of the three, the one-ton and two-ton rates worked best in peppermint, reducing barnyard grass, green foxtail, common lambsquarters, henbit and redroot pigweed populations by 90 percent several weeks after application. —  High Plains Journal
  • The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this. —  Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
  • Where they have been suffered to stand, along fences, by roadsides, and in forgotten corners,--redroot, pigweed, ragweed, vervain, goldenrod, burdock, elecampane, thistles, teasels, nettles, asters, etc.,--how they lift themselves up as if not afraid to be seen now! —  Winter Sunshine
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