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In late 2002, Rep. Joe Baca (D- California) introduced a bill (Congress bill HR 5607) to schedule salvia as a controlled substance at the national level. Those opposed to Joe Baca's bill include Daniel Siebert, who sent a letter to Congress arguing against the proposed legislation, [1] and the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE), who sent key members of the US Congress a report on ...
Salvinia minima is a species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of still waterways. [1] It is usually referred to as common salvinia or water spangles . Salvinia minima is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies and was introduced to the United States in the 1920s–1930s. [ 2 ]
Salvinia molesta, commonly known as giant salvinia, or as kariba weed after it infested a large portion of Lake Kariba between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil. [1]
Cyrtobagous salviniae is a species of weevil known as the salvinia weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious aquatic plant giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta). The adult weevil is about 2 millimeters long. It is brown in color during its first few days of adult life and soon turns shiny black.
Samea multiplicalis, the salvinia stem-borer moth, is an aquatic moth commonly found in freshwater habitats from the southern United States to Argentina, as well as in Australia where it was introduced in 1981. [3]
The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California, and the largest public university system in the United States. [1] It consists of 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers, which together enroll 457,992 students and employ 56,256 faculty and staff members. [1]
Salvinia oblongifolia is a species of plant in the Salviniaceae. [1] Its leaves can grow with up to 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, making it the largest species in the genus Salvinia [ 2 ] . Leaves are rectangular and approximately three times as long as wide with short blunt papillae that are arranged in double rows on the upper leaf surface ...
Salvinia or watermosses [1] is a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. The genus is named in honor of 17th-century Italian naturalist Anton Maria Salvini , and the generic name was first published in 1754 by French botanist Jean-François Séguier in Plantae Veronenses , a description of the plants found around Verona ...