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unusual facts about weed


Archer's Lark

An example of a weed that has especially killed off the original habitat is the Parthenium Weed.


Aegopodium podagraria

Aegopodium podagraria L. commonly called ground elder, herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, and snow-in-the-mountain, is a perennial plant in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that grows in shady places.

Aiden Dillard

Aiden Dillard's second movie "Meat Weed America" was released by Troma in the fall of 2007, and features Troma's president Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie Rochon, and Peter Stickles.

Al Weed

Former Roanoke City Manager Bern Ewert argued that Weed had been beaten "like a drum" in 2004 and would probably lose again.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia

It has also been called Annual Ragweed, Bitterweed, Blackweed, Carrot Weed, Hay Fever Weed, Roman Wormwood, Stammerwort, Stickweed, Tassel Weed, and American Wormwood.

Archer's Lark

The grasses in their habitat, which they need to survive are being destroyed by the Parthenium hysterophorus weed.

Auseklis Limbazi Theatre

Production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg went to Belgium, Estonia and Lithuania, Sławomir Mrożek's At Sea travelled to Denmark, Iceland and Lithuania, Inga Abele's Dzelzzāle (Iron Weed) had its premiere in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Babysitter Wanted

Big Screen Entertainment Group produced the film under the direction of Barnes and Manasseri on the filming locations in Lake Shastina, Montague, Weed and Yreka, California.

Banksia cuneata

Ironically, given its conservation status, Kingsley Dixon of Kings Park and Botanic Garden suggested that it may have weed potential: the species was trialled as a cut flower crop on land north of Moore River, and seedlings were noted afterwards.

Batesian mimicry

In weed, or Vavilovian mimicry, the weed does not profit from encounters with man or his winnowing machinery; at best the weed is left, at worst it is destroyed.

Battery Weed

Fort Tompkins was built on the bluff above Battery Weed to protect its landward face.

Bidens mottle virus

This virus was originally isolated from a mottled plant of the common weed Bidens pilosa (Fig. 1) collected in Gainesville (FL) – hence the name Bidens mottle virus.

Cladophora

Luang Prabang kháy sheets are the most readily available form of Mekong Weed and are famous throughout the country and in the neighbouring Isaan, though difficult to find beyond Vientiane.

Collaborative blog

Open Invite collaborative blogs succeed on the basis that the community acts to weed out trolls, spammers and other troublemakers.

Desmond Noonan

Other gangland figures participating in this truce were Paul Massey, Damian Noonan, Paul Flannery and apparently Jimmy "the Weed" Donnelly, who was a prominent figure in the Quality Street Gang, another Manchester gang.

Dorcacerus

It feeds on Prosopis flexuosa (Leguminosae) and on the invasive weed Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) ad it is considered as a potential biocontrol agent.

Edward P. Weed

Edward P. Weed (April 7, 1834 – April 18, 1880) was Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1867 to 1868, and in 1874 until his resignation.

Eriophyidae

Aceria chondrillae, the chondrilla gall mite, an agent of biological control against skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea)

Eve Karpf

Among her roles was the voice of Weed for the new 2001 Bill and Ben show.

Fire/Jericho

It takes the sampled vocal "When I was a youth I used to burn collie weed in a Rizla" from the track "Hard Times" by Pablo Gad.

Governance of Kaziranga National Park

Approximately 100 to 200 people are hired per range for removal of Mimosa, a weed which is harmful for the herbivores.

Grand Nain

These include the utilization of kidney weed which discourages weed growth without adversely affecting banana plants.

High Times' Potluck

Along the way the weed passes through the hands of an obnoxious artist (Jason Isaacs), an unfortunate small-time dealer (Jason Mewes), a bereaved Mafia gangster (Frank Adonis), the lead-singer of a punk band (Theo Kogan) and an aging TV detective (Frank Gorshin).

Honeypot Wood

Plants in the reserve include Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), plants in the genus Neottia (formerly known as Listera, commonly known as twayblades), Paris quadrifolia (True-lover's Knot or Herb Paris), Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta, Common Bluebell or Bluebell) and St John’s wort (Tipton's weed, chase-devil, or Klamath weed).

House Finch

They primarily eat grains, seeds and berries, being voracious consumers of weed seeds such as nettle and dandelion; included are incidental small insects such as aphids.

Ischnodemus variegatus

In 2000, I. variegatus was discovered feeding voraciously on the weed in Myakka River State Park in Sarasota County, Florida.

Joshua Jeays

In 1862, Jeays paid £78 for 16 hectares (39 acres) of land along Simpsons Road, from the corner of Cooper's Camp Road, towards Ithaca Creek and abutting what is now Bowman Park (then known as the 'Cobbler's Flats', because of the abundance of the weed 'cobblers pegs'), west of the area then known as Upper Paddington.

Karl Linn

With an overflowing wait list for plots in the refurbished Karl Linn Community Garden, he set his sights on a large weed-filled vacant lot across the street where the light rail tracks of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) enter an underground tunnel.

Kudzu of the North

Persicaria perfoliata (esp. NJ to Mass), a.k.a. Polygonum perfoliatum, mile-a-minute weed, Asiatic tearthumb, devil's tearthumb, or devil's tail

Louisiana Voodoo

There were different recipes in Voodoo spells for cure-all; one recipe was to mix jimson weed (Warning: due to the toxicity of Jimson Weed, it is not advised for unskilled practitioners to create) with sulfur and honey.

Mimosa pigra

It has been ranked as the tenth most problematic weed and is listed on the Weeds of National Significance.

Nickernut

In 1693 James Wallace referred to them being often found in Orkney: "After Storms of Westerly Wind amongst the Sea-weed, they find commonly in places expos'd to the Western-Ocean these Phaseoli . . . . From the West-Indies, where they commonly grow, they may be thrown in on Ireland, the Western parts of Scotland and Orkney".

Pavoclinus laurentii

Pavoclinus laurentii, the Rippled klipfish, is a species of clinid found from Inhambane, Mozambique to Port Alfred, South Africa where it prefers weed-grown tide pools.

Pes-caprae

Oxalis pes-caprae, the Bermuda buttercup, African wood-sorrel, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop, a flowering plant species

Plains pocket mouse

Some food found in their cheek pouches are: seeds of needle grass (Stipa), bind weed, sandbur grass, a small bean (probably Astragulus), and sedge (Cyperus).

Recombinant DNA

;Herbicide-resistant crops : commercial varieties of important agricultural crops (including soy, maize/corn, sorghum, canola, alfalfa and cotton) have been developed that incorporate a recombinant gene that results in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (trade name Roundup), and simplifies weed control by glyphosate application.

Silent Pool

In recent years the Pool came under attack by the invasive weed Crassula helmsii.

Spergularia villosa

It is native to southern South America, and it is known in the southwestern United States and Baja California as an introduced species and casual weed.

The Sot-Weed Factor

In March 2013, director Steven Soderbergh announced he was making a 12 hour adaptation of The Sot-Weed Factor.

Tom kha kai

Thai-style tom kha gai does not use dill weed, whereas Lao-style tom kha gai usually contains "phak si" (dill weed), which is a common herb used in Lao cuisine.

Trouble with X

# "The Rumor Weed Song" (from VeggieTales: LarryBoy and the Rumor Weed)

Tulsi chaura

Tulasī or Holy Basil is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native throughout the Old World tropics and widespread as a cultivated plant and an escaped weed.

Ulmus 'Atropurpurea'

The only other young specimen in Warriston Cemetery was inadvertently poisoned in 2013 during spraying of weed-killer to control invasive Himalayan Balsam.

United States Senate election in New York, 1851

Hamilton Fish belonged to the Seward/Weed faction, but was also a close friend of Henry Clay who was one of the leaders of the Fillmore faction in Washington, D.C. He was thus considered the only viable compromise candidate.

Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway

South of Crater Lake, the byway continues down Oregon Route 62, with Mount Scott on the east, to Fort Klamath, whereupon it heads west on Weed Road to Sevenmile Road, then south on West Side Road along the edge of the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and Upper Klamath Lake.

Weed Forestin'

Weed Forestin was recorded in 1986 and 1987, when Barlow was the bassist of the American indie rock band, Dinosaur Jr. Sebadoh, which Barlow co-founded with Eric Gaffney, started as a songwriting outlet for Barlow outside of Dinosaur Jr, whose lead singer and guitarist, J. Mascis, Barlow would later publicly clash with.

William McWaters

His journey next brought him to Sparta, Oregon where a relative of his resided and he would shoot in the back George Weed, a former Union solder, after becoming enraged over a gambling dispute and the brass Union Army buttons the man wore on his coat.


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