Nursery production weed ID guide

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A publication for nursery and landscape professionals:
An IPM Pocket Guide for Weed Identification in Nurseries and Landscapes -- New 2007 This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.75" X 6.0" pages fits in your pocket for easy use in the nursery or landscape. With each weed, the life cycle, leaves, stems, flowers and fruit, and reproduction are presented with color pictures and a description to help you find the right species no matter what time of the season it is. (View sample pages or order information)

The following weeds are included in the guide:
Annual bluegrass Annual sowthistle Asiatic (common) dayflower Barnyardgrass Birdseye pearlwort Birdsfoot trefoil Black medic Blackseed plantain Brambles British elecampane Broadleaf dock Broadleaf plantain Buckhorn plantain Bull thistle Canada goldenrod Canada thistle Carpetweed Common blue violet Common chickweed Common cottonwood Common eveningprimrose Common groundsel Common lambsquarters Common mallow Common purslane Corn speedwell Creeping woodsorrel Curly dock Cutleaf eveningprimrose Dandelion Eastern black nightshade English ivy Entireleaf morningglory Field bindweed Field horsetail Field pennycress Field violet Giant foxtail Green foxtail Ground ivy	Hairy bittercress Hairy galinsoga Healall Hedge bindweed Henbit Horsenettle Horseweed Ivyleaf morningglory Knawel Ladysthumb Large crabgrass Liverworts Marestail Marsh yellowcress Mile-a-minute Mosses Mouseear chickweed Mugwort Northern willowherb Pale smartweed Pennsylvania smartweed Perennial sowthistle Pineapple weed Pitted morningglory Poison ivy Powell amaranth Prostrate knotweed Prostrate pigweed Prostrate spurge Prickly lettuce Purple deadnettle Purslane speedwell Quackgrass Red clover Redroot pigweed Redstem filaree Scouringrush Shepherd’s purse Slender speedwell Smallflowered bittercress	Common chickweed flower.
		Smooth crabgrass Smooth pigweed Spiny sowthistle Spotted spurge Stinging nettle Swamp smartweed Tall morningglory Tartary buckwheat Tumble pigweed Velvetleaf Venice mallow Vetches Virginia creeper White clover Wild buckwheat Wild mustard Yellow fieldcress Yellow foxtail Yellow nutsedge Yellow rocket Yellow woodsorrel



Other guides for scouting View information on similar guides for stone fruit, blueberries, grapes, woody landscape plants, weeds in Christmas trees, herbaceous perennials and natural enemies in crops and landscapes . More information. The 169-page guide serves as a field supplement to more comprehensive references like Management Practices for Michigan Wholesale Nurseries by R.T. Fernandez, Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States by A.J. Chomas, J.J. Kells and J.B. Carey, and Weeds of the Northeast by R.H. Uva, J.C. Neal and J.M. DiTomaso. Compiled and edited by: Steven A. Gower, Diagnostic Services, Michigan State University; and Robert J. Richardson, North Carolina State University. Graphic designer: Rebecca Lamb, MSU IPM Program
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Updated: 06/05/07